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Book of Exodus, Chapter 30

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Chapter 30 of Exodus—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ “And you must make an altar as a place for burning incense;1 out of acacia wood you will make it.
  2. A cubit in length and a cubit in width, it should be foursquare, and its height two cubits. Its horns extend out of it.2
  3. And you must overlay it with pure gold, its top surface and its sides[a] round about and its horns; and you must make a border of gold round about for it.3
  4. You will also make for it two rings of gold. Down below its border upon two of its sides you will make them, upon two opposite sides of it, as they must serve as supports for the poles with which to carry it.4
  5. And you must make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.5
  6. And you must put it before the curtain that is near the ark of the testimony,6 before the cover that is over the Testimony, where I shall present myself to you.7
  7. ¶ “And Aaron must make perfumed incense8 smoke upon it.9 Morning by morning, when he dresses the lamps,10 he will make it smoke.
  8. And when Aaron lights up the lamps between the two evenings, he will make it smoke. It is an incense constantly before Jehovah during YOUR generations.
  9. YOU must not offer upon it illegitimate[b] incense11 or a burnt offering or a grain offering;[c] and YOU must not pour a drink offering upon it.
  10. And Aaron must make atonement upon its horns once a year.12 With some of the blood of the sin offering13 of the atonement he will make atonement for it once a year during YOUR generations. It is most holy to Jehovah.”
  11. ¶ And Jehovah went on to speak to Moses, saying:
  12. “Whenever you take the sum of the sons of Israel as a census of them,[d]14 then they must each give a ransom[e] for his soul[f] to Jehovah when[g] taking a census of them,15 that there may come to be no plague upon them when taking a census of them.16
  13. This is what all those will give who pass over to those numbered: a half shekel by the shekel[h] of the holy place.[i]17 Twenty geʹrahs[j] equal a shekel. A half shekel is the contribution to Jehovah.18
  14. Everyone passing over to those registered from twenty years old and upward will give Jehovah’s contribution.19
  15. The rich should not give more, and the lowly must not give less than the half shekel,20 in order to give Jehovah’s contribution so as to make atonement for YOUR souls.21
  16. And you must take the silver money of the atonement from the sons of Israel and give it in behalf of the service of the tent of meeting,22 that it may indeed serve as a memorial before Jehovah for the sons of Israel, to make atonement for YOUR souls.”
  17. ¶ And Jehovah spoke further to Moses, saying:
  18. “You must make a basin[k] of copper and its stand of copper for washing,23 and you must put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water into it.24
  19. And Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet at it.25
  20. When they go into the tent of meeting they will wash with water that they may not die, or when they go near the altar to minister in order to make an offering made by fire smoke to Jehovah.26
  21. And they must wash their hands and their feet that they may not die,27 and it must serve as a regulation to time indefinite for them, for him and his offspring throughout their generations.”28
  22. ¶ And Jehovah continued to speak to Moses, saying:
  23. “As for you, take to yourself the choicest perfumes:29 myrrh30 in congealed drops[l] five hundred units, and sweet cinnamon31 in half that amount, two hundred and fifty units, and sweet calamus32 two hundred and fifty units,
  24. and cassia33 five hundred units by the shekel of the holy place,34 and olive oil a hin.35
  25. Then you must make out of it a holy anointing oil, an ointment, a mixture that is the work of an ointment maker.36 It is to be a holy anointing oil.37
  26. ¶ “And you must anoint with it the tent of meeting38 and the ark of the testimony,
  27. and the table and all its utensils and the lampstand and its utensils and the altar of incense,
  28. and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
  29. And you must sanctify them that they may indeed become most holy.39 Anyone[m] touching them is to be holy.40
  30. And you will anoint Aaron41 and his sons,42 and you must sanctify them for acting as priests to me.43
  31. ¶ “And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘This is to continue as a holy anointing oil to me during YOUR generations.44
  32. It is not to be rubbed in the flesh of mankind, and with its composition YOU must not make any like it. It is something holy. It is to continue as something holy for YOU.
  33. Anyone who makes an ointment like it and who puts some of it upon a stranger[n] must be cut off from his people.’”45
  34. ¶ And Jehovah went on to say to Moses: “Take to yourself perfumes:46 stacte drops and onycha and perfumed galbanum and pure frankincense.47 There should be the same portion of each.
  35. And you must make it into an incense,48 a spice mixture, the work of an ointment maker, salted,49 pure, something holy.
  36. And you must pound some of it into fine powder and put some of it before the Testimony in the tent of meeting,50 where I shall present myself to you.51 It should be most holy to YOU people.
  37. And the incense that you will make with this composition, YOU must not make for yourselves.52 For you it is to continue as something holy to Jehovah.53
  38. Whoever makes any like it to enjoy its smell must be cut off54 from his people.”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit., “walls.”
  2. ^ Lit., “strange.”
  3. ^ Lit., “a gift.”
  4. ^ Or, “by their registered ones.”
  5. ^ Or, “reparation.” Lit., “covering.” Gr., lyʹtra, pl.
  6. ^ “His soul (life).” Heb., naph·shohʹ; Gr., psy·khesʹ.
  7. ^ Or, “because of.”
  8. ^ “Shekel,” MSy; LXX, “didrachma.” See App 8A.
  9. ^ Or, “by the holy shekel.” A standard weight kept at the tabernacle, or possibly to emphasize that the weight should be precise. Compare 2Sa 14:26 ftn, “Weight.”
  10. ^ See App 8A.
  11. ^ Or, “laver.”
  12. ^ Or, “myrrh of pearls,” that is, white drops of myrrh having congealed and turned dark red or black.
  13. ^ Or, “Anything.”
  14. ^ “Stranger,” that is, a non-Aaronite. See 29:32, 33.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ex 40:5; Ps 141:2
  2. ^ Ex 27:2; 37:25; Le 4:7
  3. ^ Ex 37:26
  4. ^ Ex 37:27
  5. ^ Ex 37:28
  6. ^ Ex 26:33; Heb 9:3
  7. ^ Ex 25:22
  8. ^ Ex 30:34; 2Ch 13:11; Re 8:4
  9. ^ Le 16:13; Nu 16:40; 1Sa 2:28; 1Ch 23:13; Lu 1:9
  10. ^ Ex 27:20; 1Sa 3:3
  11. ^ Le 10:1; 2Ch 26:18; Eze 8:11
  12. ^ Le 16:18; 23:27; Heb 9:7
  13. ^ Le 16:5, 6, 19
  14. ^ Ex 38:25; Nu 1:2
  15. ^ Nu 31:50
  16. ^ 2Sa 24:10, 15; 1Ch 21:12
  17. ^ Le 27:25
  18. ^ 2Ch 24:9; Ne 10:32; Mt 17:24
  19. ^ Ex 38:26; Nu 1:3; 26:2
  20. ^ Jb 34:19; Pr 22:2; Eph 6:9
  21. ^ Nu 31:50
  22. ^ Ex 38:25
  23. ^ Ex 38:8; Le 8:11; 1Ki 7:38
  24. ^ Ex 40:7
  25. ^ Ex 40:31; Eph 5:26; Heb 10:22
  26. ^ 2Ch 13:11
  27. ^ Ex 40:31
  28. ^ Ex 28:43; 2Ch 4:6
  29. ^ Sg 4:14; Je 6:20
  30. ^ Ps 45:8; Sg 1:13; 3:6
  31. ^ Pr 7:17; Re 18:13
  32. ^ Eze 27:19
  33. ^ Ps 45:8
  34. ^ Nu 3:47
  35. ^ Ex 29:40; Le 19:36; Nu 15:5
  36. ^ Ex 37:29
  37. ^ Nu 35:25; Ps 89:20; 133:2; Heb 1:9
  38. ^ Ex 40:9; Nu 7:1
  39. ^ Le 8:10
  40. ^ Ex 29:37; Le 6:18
  41. ^ Le 8:12; Ac 10:38
  42. ^ Nu 3:3; 2Co 1:21
  43. ^ Ex 40:15; Re 5:10
  44. ^ Ex 37:29; 1Ki 1:39; Ps 89:20
  45. ^ Ex 30:38
  46. ^ Ex 25:6; 37:29
  47. ^ Le 5:11; Ne 13:5; Sg 3:6; Mt 2:11
  48. ^ Ps 141:2; Re 5:8
  49. ^ Le 2:13
  50. ^ Ex 16:34
  51. ^ Ex 29:42; Le 16:2
  52. ^ Ex 30:32
  53. ^ Ex 29:37
  54. ^ Le 24:16; Nu 15:35

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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