1. Build an altar of acacia wood where you can burn incense.
2. Make it forty-five centimetres square and ninety centimetres high, and make each of its four corners stick up like the horn of a bull.
3. Cover it with pure gold and put a gold edging around it.
4. Then below the edging on opposite sides attach two gold rings through which you can put the poles for carrying the altar.
5. These poles are also to be made of acacia wood covered with gold.
6. Put the altar in front of the inside curtain of the sacred tent. The chest with the place of mercy is kept behind that curtain, and I will talk with you there.
13-15. Each man over nineteen, whether rich or poor, must pay me the same amount of money, weighed according to the official standards.
18-21. Make a large bronze bowl and a bronze stand for it. Then put them between the altar for sacrifice and the sacred tent, so the priests can wash their hands and feet before entering the tent or offering a sacrifice on the altar. Each priest in every generation must wash himself in this way, or else he will die there.
23-25. Mix four litres of olive oil with the following costly spices: six kilogrammes of myrrh, three kilogrammes of cinnamon, three kilogrammes of cane, and six kilogrammes of cassia. Measure these according to the official standards. Then use this sacred mixture
34-35. Mix equal amounts of the costly spices stacte, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense, then add salt to make the mixture pure and holy.