Instructions for Making the Incense Altar
1 "And you will make an altar [for] burning incense; you will make it of acacia wood,
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a cubit its length and a cubit its width--it will be square--and two cubits its height, its horns {of one piece with it}.
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And you will overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around and its horns, and you will make for it a gold molding all around.
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And you will make two gold rings for it; under its molding {on two opposite sides} you will make [them] as {holders} for poles to carry it with them.
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You will make the poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them [with] gold.
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And you will put it before the curtain that [is] upon the ark of the testimony, before the atonement cover, which [is] on the testimony, there where I will meet with you.
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"And on it Aaron will turn fragrant incense into smoke; {each morning} when he tends the lamps, he will turn it into smoke.
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And when Aaron sets up the lamps {at twilight}, he will turn it into smoke--incense of continuity--before Yahweh throughout your generations.
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You will not offer on it strange incense or a burnt offering or a grain offering, and you will not pour a libation on it.
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And Aaron will make atonement on its horns one time in the year from the blood of the sin offering of the atonement; one time in the year he will make atonement on it throughout your generations; it is a most holy thing for Yahweh."