The Altar of Incense^(A)

30 “Make an altar^(B) of acacia wood for burning incense.^{(C) 2} It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high^[a]—its horns^(D) of one piece with it. ³ Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.^{(E) 4} Make two gold rings^(F) for the altar below the molding—two on each of the opposite sides—to hold the poles used to carry it. ⁵ Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.^{(G) 6} Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law—before the atonement cover^(H) that is over the tablets of the covenant law—where I will meet with you.

²⁵ Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer.^(A) It will be the sacred anointing oil.^(B)

Incense

³⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices^(A)—gum resin, onycha and galbanum—and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts, ³⁵ and make a fragrant blend of incense,^(B) the work of a perfumer.^(C) It is to be salted and pure and sacred. ³⁶ Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, where I will meet^(D) with you. It shall be most holy^(E) to you. ³⁷ Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy^(F) to the Lord. ³⁸ Whoever makes incense like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off^(G) from their people.”