⁷ “Aaron shall burn on it ^(A)sweet incense every morning; when ^(B)he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it.

²⁸ Did I not ^(A)choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to offer upon My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod before Me? And ^(B)did I not give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

⁹ according to the custom of the priesthood, ^[a]his lot fell ^(A)to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

¹³ The sons of ^(A)Amram: Aaron and Moses; and ^(B)Aaron was set apart, he and his sons forever, that he should ^[a]sanctify the most holy things, ^(C)to burn incense before the Lord, ^(D)to minister to Him, and ^(E)to give the blessing in His name forever.

The Care of the Lampstand^(A)

²⁰ “And ^(B)you shall command the children of Israel that they bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to cause the lamp to ^[a]burn continually. ²¹ In the tabernacle of meeting, ^(C)outside the veil which is before the Testimony, ^(D)Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening until morning before the Lord. ^(E)It shall be a statute forever to their generations on behalf of the children of Israel.

⁴ but we ^(A)will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

³ and before ^(A)the lamp of God went out in the ^[a]tabernacle of the Lord where the ark of God was, and while Samuel was lying down,

The Incense^(A)

³⁴ And the Lord said to Moses: ^(B)“Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, and pure frankincense with these sweet spices; there shall be equal amounts of each.