Leviticus 16:12
Good News Translation
he shall take a fire pan full of burning coals from the altar and two handfuls of fine incense and bring them into the Most Holy Place.

New Revised Standard Version
He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of crushed sweet incense, and he shall bring it inside the curtain

Contemporary English Version
Then you will take a fire pan of live coals from the bronze altar, together with two handfuls of finely ground incense, into the most holy place.

New American Bible
he shall take a censer full of glowing embers from the altar before the LORD, as well as a double handful of finely ground fragrant incense, and bringing them inside the veil,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And taking the censer, which he hath filled with the burning coals of the altar, and taking up with his hands the compounded perfume for incense, he shall go in within the veil into the holy place:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And taking the censer, which he hath filled with the burning coals of the altar, and taking up with his hands the compounded perfume for incense, he shall go in within the veil into the holy place:

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Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them.

Numbers 16:18,46 When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing, . . .

Isaiah 6:6,7 And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar. . . .

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

sweet incense

Exodus 30:24-38 And of cassia five hundred sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, of oil of olives the measure hin: . . .

Exodus 31:11 The oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the sanctuary, all things which I have commanded thee, shall they make.

Exodus 37:29 He compounded also the oil for the ointment of sanctification, and incense of the purest spices, according to the work of a perfumer.

Revelation 8:3,4 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. . . .

Context
The Sin Offering for the Priest
11After these things are duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf: and praying for himself and for his own house, he shall immolate it. 12And taking the censer, which he hath filled with the burning coals of the altar, and taking up with his hands the compounded perfume for incense, he shall go in within the veil into the holy place:13That when the perfumes are put upon the fire, the cloud and vapour thereof may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and he may not die.…
Cross References
Hebrews 9:7
But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people's ignorance:

Revelation 8:5
And the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar and cast it on the earth: and there were thunders and voices and lightnings and a great earthquake.

Exodus 30:34
And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight.

Leviticus 10:1
And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them.

Numbers 16:18
When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing,

Deuteronomy 33:10
Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.

Leviticus 16:11
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