Bible in Basic English
"Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,"
— Exodus 30:23, Bible in Basic English
Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,
Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation.
And the Lord said to Moses,
Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,
And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:
And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil.
This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law,