The Strand Study Bible

EXODUS 29:43

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EXODUS 30:16

congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. 43 And there I will meet with the chil- dren of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. 44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanc- tify also both Aaron and his sons, to min- ister to me in the priest’s office. 45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God. Exodus 30

for the staves to bear it withal. 5 And thou shalt make the staves of shit- tim wood, and overlay them with gold. 6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. 7 And Aaron shall burn thereon 5 sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. 8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn 6 incense upon it, a per- petual incense before the LORD through- out your generations. 9 Ye shall offer no 7 strange incense there- on, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon. 10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD. Maintaining the Tabernacle 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou number- est them; that there be no 8 plague among them, when thou numberest them. 13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, 9 half a shekel after the shekel of the sanc- tuary: (a shekel is twenty 10 gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD. 14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD. 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls. 16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a me- morial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

1. Exo 37:25-29 Note - The Altar of Incense was made of gold and wood, depicting CHRIST as both God and man. It represented the God-man’s intercession for us day and night (Rom 8:34 and Heb 4:14- 16 & 7:25). 2. or, “18 inches long” 3. or, “3 feet high” 4. or, “rim; molding” 5. Exo 30:34 & Lk 1:8-9 6. Note - Incense depicts the prayers of the saints (Psa 141:2, Lk 1:10 and Rev 5:8 & 8:3-4). 7. Lev 10:1-2 8. II Sam 24:1-15 9. or, “bekah” - Exo 38:25-26 10. Lev 27:25 & Num 3:47 & Ezk 45:12 Note - A gerah was not a coin, but a weight to balance a scale. A gerah was ½ th of a bekah.

The Altar of Incense Date - 1487 BC/AM 2513 THE ALTAR OF INCENSE

1 And thou shalt make an 1 altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it. 2 A 2 cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and 3 two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same. 3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a 4 crown of gold round about. 4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two cor- ners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places

30:12 Every wage-earning person twenty years and older was required to pay a ransom of a half of shekel (vs 13-15) (above the tithe) in order to maintain the Tabernacle (Neh 10:32-34 and Mt 17:24-27). The tithe was to be used for the sole purpose of taking care of the ministers (Num 18:21-24), not maintaining the Tabernacle. 30:15 The text says: The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel . The price for maintaining the Tabernacle (the Tabernacle depicting salvation) is the same for all classes.