Exodus 29:38-30:10

English Standard Version

³⁸ “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: ^(A)two lambs a year old ^(B)day by day regularly. ³⁹ One lamb you shall offer ^(C)in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer ^(D)at twilight. ⁴⁰ And with the first lamb a tenth measure^[a] of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin^[b] of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering. ⁴¹ The other lamb you shall offer ^(E)at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as ^(F)in the morning, for a ^(G)pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord. ⁴² It shall be a ^(H)regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, ^(I)where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. ⁴³ There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be ^(J)sanctified by my glory. ⁴⁴ I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. ^(K)Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests. ^45 (L)I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God. ⁴⁶ And they shall know that ^(M)I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.

The Altar of Incense

30 ^(N)“You shall make ^(O)an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. ² A cubit^[c] shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. ^(P)Its horns shall be of one piece with it. ³ You shall ^(Q)overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. ⁴ And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be ^(R)holders for poles with which to carry it. ⁵ You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. ⁶ And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the ^(S)mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you. ⁷ And Aaron shall ^(T)burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he ^(U)dresses the lamps he shall burn it, ⁸ and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations. ⁹ You shall not offer ^(V)unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it. ^10 (W)Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the ^(X)sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”