Exodus 30:1-10 ▼

1 You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.

2 Its length is to be a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, with its horns of one piece with it.

3 You are to overlay it with pure gold--its top, its four walls, and its horns--and make a surrounding border of gold for it.

4 You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. The rings will be places for poles to carry it with.

5 You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

6 You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

7 Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense.

8 When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.

9 You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it.

10 Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement; once in the year he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.|