20. When they enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water so that they do not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by burning incense as an offering made by fire to the Lord,
21. they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations.”
22. The Lord spoke to Moses:
23. “Take choice spices: twelve and a half pounds of free-flowing myrrh, half that – about six and a quarter pounds – of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane,
24. and twelve and a half pounds of cassia, all weighed according to the sanctuary shekel, and four quarts of olive oil.
25. You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.
26. “With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony,
27. the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,
28. the altar for the burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its base.
29. So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.
30. “You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests.
31. And you are to tell the Israelites: ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.
32. It must not be applied to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.
33. Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people.’”
34. The Lord said to Moses: “Take spices, gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense of equal amounts
35. and make it into an incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer. It is to be finely ground, and pure and sacred.
36. You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.
37. And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the Lord.