Exodus 30:1-8 ▼

1 For burning incense you shall make an altar of acacia wood,

2 with a square surface, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high, with horns that are of one piece with it.

3 Its grate on top, its walls on all four sides, and its horns you shall plate with pure gold. Put a gold molding around it.

4 Underneath the molding you shall put gold rings, two on one side and two on the opposite side, as holders for the poles used in carrying it.

5 Make the poles, too, of acacia wood and plate them with gold.

6 This altar you are to place in front of the veil that hangs before the ark of the covenant where I will meet you.

7 On it Aaron shall burn fragrant incense. Morning after morning, when he prepares the lamps,

8 and again in the evening twilight, when he lights the lamps, he shall burn incense. Throughout your generations this shall be the regular incense offering before the LORD.