Exodus 30:7-14

⁷And Aharon shall burn thereon fragrant incense from morning to morning, when he setteth the lamps in order he shall burn it.

⁸And when Aharon kindleth the lamps between the evenings, he shall burn fragrant incense continually before the Lord in your generations.

⁹You shall not offer upon it incense of strange perfumes, nor holocaust, nor mincha, nor pour any libation upon it.

¹⁰And Aharon shall atone upon its horns once in the year with the blood of the sin offering of the atonement, once in the year shall he atone upon it, unto your generations. It is holy of holiness before the Lord.

¹¹And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying,

¹²When thou takest the account of the sons of Israel according to their number, they shall give every man a ransom for his soul before the Lord, when thou numberest them, that there may not be death among them when thou numberest them.

¹³This they shall give: everyone who cometh over to the adnumberment, a half shekel, of the shekel of the sanctuary, of twenty mayin the shekel, half a shekel shall be set apart before the Lord.

¹⁴Everyone who cometh over to the adnumberment, from a son of twenty years and above, shall give the separation before the Lord.