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"Make an altar out of acacia wood for burning incense.
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Make it square -- eighteen inches long and eighteen inches wide -- and make it thirty-six inches high. The corners that stick out like horns must be one piece with the altar.
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Cover its top, its sides, and its corners with pure gold, and put a gold strip all around the altar.
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Make two gold rings beneath the gold strip on opposite sides of the altar, and slide poles through them to carry the altar.
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Make the poles from acacia wood and cover them with gold.
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Put the altar of incense in front of the curtain that is near the Ark of the Agreement, in front of the lid that covers that Ark. There I will meet with you.
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"Aaron must burn sweet-smelling incense on the altar every morning when he comes to take care of the oil lamps.
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He must burn incense again in the evening when he lights the lamps, so incense will burn before the Lord every day from now on.
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Do not use this altar for offering any other incense, or burnt offering, or any kind of grain offering, or drink offering.
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Once a year Aaron must make the altar ready for service to God by putting blood on its corners -- the blood of the animal offered to remove sins. He is to do this once a year from now on. This altar belongs completely to the Lord's service."