Chapter 30
1
You shall make an altar for burning incense; you shall make it from acacia wood.
2
Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit—it shall be square—and its height two cubits, with its horns rising from it.
3
You shall overlay it with pure gold: its top, its sides all around, and its horns. And you shall make a gold molding for it all around.
4
You shall make two gold rings for it, below the molding on its two sides; you shall make them on its two sides, and they shall be holders for the poles to carry it with them.
5
You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6
You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
7
Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it every morning; when he prepares the lamps, he shall burn it.
8
When Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense on it continually before the LORD throughout your generations.
9
You shall not offer foreign incense on it, or a burnt offering or grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.
10
Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering for atonement; once a year he shall make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.