Exodus 30:18–28

¹⁸“You shall make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it;^{* 19}with the water^f Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.^{* 20}When they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister to make an offering by fire^g to the Lord, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die. ²¹They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die: it shall be a perpetual ordinance for them, for him and for his descendants throughout their generations.”^*

The Anointing Oil and Incense

²²The Lord spoke to Moses, ²³“Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred fifty, and two hundred fifty of aromatic cane, ²⁴and five hundred of cassia—measured by the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil, ²⁵and you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.^{* 26}With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the covenant^{* 27}and the table and all its utensils and the lampstand and its utensils and the altar of incense ²⁸and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin with its stand;