² The Lord said to Moses:

Tell your brother Aaron not to come just at any time into the sanctuary inside the curtain before the mercy seat^[a] that is upon the ark, or he will die; for I appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.^[b]

¹² He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of crushed sweet incense, and he shall bring it inside the curtain ¹³ and put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat^[a] that is upon the covenant,^[b] or he will die.