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`And thou hast made an altar [for] making perfume; [of] shittim wood thou dost make it;
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a cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth, (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns [are] of the same.
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`And thou hast overlaid it with pure gold, its top, and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou hast made to it a crown of gold round about;
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and two rings of gold thou dost make to it under its crown; on its two ribs thou dost make [them], on its two sides, and they have become places for staves, to bear it with them.
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`And thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold;
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and thou hast put it before the vail, which [is] by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat which [is] over the testimony, whither I am met with thee.
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`And Aaron hath made perfume on it, perfume of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right he doth perfume it,
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and in Aaron's causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he doth perfume it; a continual perfume before Jehovah to your generations.
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`Ye do not cause strange perfume to go up upon it, and burnt-offering, and present, and libation ye do not pour out on it;