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The Incense Altar

30 ‘You are to make an altar for the burning of incense; make it of acacia wood.(A) It must be square, forty-five centimetres long and forty-five centimetres wide;[a] it must be ninety centimetres high.[b] Its horns must be of one piece with it. Overlay its top, all round its sides, and its horns with pure gold; make a gold moulding all round it. Make two gold rings for it under the moulding on two of its sides; put these on opposite sides of it to be holders for the poles to carry it with. Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

‘You are to place the altar in front of the curtain by the ark of the testimony – in front of the mercy seat that is over the testimony – where I will meet with you. Aaron must burn fragrant incense on it; he must burn it every morning when he tends the lamps.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 30:2 Lit one cubit its length and one cubit its width
  2. 30:2 Lit wide; and two cubits its height