The golden altar of incense and the half-shekel atonement tax from Exodus 30 - God’s instructions for how Israel was to draw near to Him inside the Tabernacle, set to cinematic indie-folk by Psalm Selah.
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Lyrics
You shall make an altar to burn incense on You shall make it of acacia wood Its length shall be a cubit and its width a cubit It shall be square and its height shall be two cubits
Its horns shall be of one piece with it You shall overlay it with pure gold Its top its sides around it and its horns And you shall make a gold moulding around it
You shall make two golden rings for it Under its moulding 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
You shall make the poles of acacia wood And overlay them with gold You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant Before the mercy seat that is over the covenant
Where I will meet with you Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning When he tends the lamps he shall burn it When Aaron lights the lamps at evening
He shall burn it a perpetual incense before the LORD Throughout your generations You shall offer no strange incense on it Nor burnt offering nor meal offering
And you shall pour no drink offering on it Aaron 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 the LORD The LORD spoke to Moses saying When you take a census of the children of Israel
According to those who are counted amongst them Then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD When you count them that there be no plague amongst them When you count them
They shall give this everyone who passes over to those who are counted Half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary The shekel is twenty gerahs half a shekel for an offering to the LORD Everyone who passes over to those who are counted
From twenty years old and upward shall give the offering to the LORD The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less Than the half shekel when they give the offering of the LORD To make atonement for your souls
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Exodus 30 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.