Old Testament

Exodus 29-30

^29:1"This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish, ^29:2unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour. ^29:3You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. ^29:4You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water. ^29:5You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and dress him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod; ^29:6and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban. ^29:7Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him. ^29:8You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. ^29:9You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

^29:10"You shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. ^29:11You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting. ^29:12You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. ^29:13You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. ^29:14But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin-offering.

^29:15"You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. ^29:16You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar. ^29:17You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head. ^29:18You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

^29:19"You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. ^29:20Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood on the altar round about. ^29:21You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. ^29:22Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration), ^29:23and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh. ^29:24You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and shall wave them for a wave-offering before Yahweh. ^29:25You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a sweet savor before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

^29:26"You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your portion. ^29:27You shall sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: ^29:28and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering: and it shall be a heave-offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, even their heave-offering to Yahweh.

^29:29"The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them. ^29:30Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

^29:31"You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place. ^29:32Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting. ^29:33They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy. ^29:34If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

^29:35"Thus shall you do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Seven days shall you consecrate them. ^29:36Every day shall you offer the bull of sin-offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it. ^29:37Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

^29:38"Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. ^29:39The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening: ^29:40and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering. ^29:41The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to its drink-offering, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. ^29:42It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you. ^29:43There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory. ^29:44I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office. ^29:45I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. ^29:46They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.

^30:1"You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood. ^30:2Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. ^30:3You shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, the sides of it around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it. ^30:4You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it. ^30:5You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. ^30:6You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you. ^30:7Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it. ^30:8When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations. ^30:9You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it. ^30:10Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."

^30:11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ^30:12"When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them. ^30:13They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh. ^30:14Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh. ^30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls. ^30:16You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."

^30:17Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ^30:18"You shall also make a basin of brass, and the base of it of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. ^30:19Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it. ^30:20When they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh. ^30:21So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."

^30:22Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ^30:23"Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty; ^30:24and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil. ^30:25You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. ^30:26You shall use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, ^30:27the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense, ^30:28the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base. ^30:29You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy. ^30:30You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. ^30:31You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. ^30:32It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you. ^30:33Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"

^30:34Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight; ^30:35and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy: ^30:36and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy. ^30:37The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh. ^30:38Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."

New Testament

Luke 3

^3:1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, ^3:2in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. ^3:3He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins. ^3:4As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,

 "The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
      'Make ready the way of the Lord.

 Make his paths straight.
      ^3:5Every valley will be filled.

 Every mountain and hill will be brought low.
      The crooked will become straight,
      And the rough ways smooth.

 ^3:6All flesh will see God's salvation.'"

^3:7He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? ^3:8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! ^3:9Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

^3:10The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"

^3:11He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."

^3:12Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"

^3:13He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is appointed to you."

^3:14Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?"

He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."

^3:15As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ, ^3:16John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire, ^3:17whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

^3:18Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people, ^3:19but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, ^3:20added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison. ^3:21Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened, ^3:22and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased."

^3:23Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, ^3:24the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, ^3:25the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, ^3:26the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, ^3:27the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, ^3:28the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, ^3:29the son of Josa, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, ^3:30the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, ^3:31the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, ^3:32the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, ^3:33the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Joram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, ^3:34the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, ^3:35the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah ^3:36the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, ^3:37the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, ^3:38the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.