Exodus 30:1
Good News Translation
"Make an altar out of acacia wood, for burning incense.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall make an altar on which to offer incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

Contemporary English Version
Build an altar of acacia wood where you can burn incense.

New American Bible
For burning incense you shall make an altar of acacia wood,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.

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Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.

Exodus 30:32 The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall make none other of the same composition, because it is sanctified, and shall be holy unto you.

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Exodus 30:26 And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony, and the ark of the testament,

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Exodus 30:7,8,10 And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it: . . .

Exodus 37:25-28 He made also the alter of incense of setim wood, being a cubit on every side foursquare, and in height two cubits: from the corners of which went out horns. . . .

Exodus 40:5 And the altar of gold, whereon the incense is burnt before the ark of the testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle,

Leviticus 4:7,18 And he shall put some of the same blood upon the horns of the altar of the sweet incense most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the tabernacle. . . .

1 Kings 6:20 Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.

2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the temple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden censer: and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which is before the throne of God.

to burn incense.

Exodus 4:11 The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

); and the incense was as constantly burnt on it every day, as the morning and evening sacrifice of a lamb was burnt on the brazen altar.

Context
The Altar of Incense
1Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.2It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.…
Cross References
Hebrews 9:4
Having a golden censer and the ark of the testament covered about on every part with gold, in which was a golden pot that had manna and the rod of Aaron that had blossomed and the tables of the testament.

Revelation 8:3
And another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden censer: and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which is before the throne of God.

Exodus 30:2
It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.

Exodus 35:15
The altar of incense, and the bars, and the oil of unction, and the incense of spices: the hanging at the door of the tabernacle:

Exodus 37:25
He made also the alter of incense of setim wood, being a cubit on every side foursquare, and in height two cubits: from the corners of which went out horns.

Numbers 3:31
And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister, and the veil, and all the furniture of this kind.

1 Kings 6:22
And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.

1 Kings 7:48
And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the loaves of proposition should be set:

1 Chronicles 6:49
But Aaron and his sons offered burnt offerings upon the altar of holocausts, and upon the altar of incense, for every work of the holy of holies: and to pray for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

1 Chronicles 28:18
And for the altar of incense, he gave the purest gold: and to make the likeness of the chariot of the cherubims spreading their wings, and covering the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

Ezekiel 41:22
The altar of wood was three cubits high: and the length thereof was two cubits: and the corners thereof, aid the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood. And he said to me: This is the table before the Lord.

Exodus 29:46
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