Let my prayer be set before You (A)as incense,
(B)The lifting up of my hands as (C)the evening sacrifice.

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Men and Women in the Church

I desire therefore that the men pray (A)everywhere, (B)lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;

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Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with (A)the prayers of all the saints upon (B)the golden altar which was before the throne. And (C)the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.

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Worthy Is the Lamb

Now when He had taken the scroll, (A)the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the (B)prayers of the saints.

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21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man (A)Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, [a]being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:21 Or being weary with weariness

(A)Lift up your hands in the sanctuary,
And bless the Lord.

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36 And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “Lord (A)God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, (B)let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that (C)I have done all these things at Your word.

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39 One lamb you shall offer (A)in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer [a]at twilight.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 29:39 Lit. between the two evenings

11 For (A)from the rising of the sun, even to its going down,
My name shall be great (B)among the Gentiles;
(C)In every place (D)incense shall be offered to My name,
And a pure offering;
(E)For My name shall be great among the nations,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

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(A)The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
But the prayer of the upright is His delight.

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Thus I will bless You while I live;
I will (A)lift up my hands in Your name.

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Hear the voice of my supplications
When I cry to You,
(A)When I lift up my hands (B)toward Your holy sanctuary.

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My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord;
(A)In the morning I will direct it to You,
And I will look up.

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Then everyone who (A)trembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the transgression of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished until the (B)evening sacrifice.

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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. 35 You shall make of these an incense, a compound (C)according to the art of the perfumer, salted, pure, and holy. 36 And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put some of it before the Testimony in the tabernacle of meeting (D)where I will meet with you. (E)It shall be most holy to you. 37 But as for the incense which you shall make, (F)you shall not make any for yourselves, according to its [a]composition. It shall be to you holy for the Lord. 38 (G)Whoever makes any like it, to smell it, he shall be cut off from his people.”

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  1. Exodus 30:37 Lit. proportion

A Lame Man Healed

Now Peter and John went up together (A)to the temple at the hour of prayer, (B)the ninth hour.

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according to the custom of the priesthood, [a]his lot fell (A)to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. 10 (B)And the whole multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense.

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  1. Luke 1:9 he was chosen by lot

46 So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make [a]atonement for them; (A)for wrath has gone out from the Lord. The plague has begun.” 47 Then Aaron took it as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and already the plague had begun among the people. So he put in the incense and made atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; so (B)the plague was stopped.

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  1. Numbers 16:46 Lit. covering

35 And (A)a fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

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11 “And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for (A)himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull as the sin offering which is for himself. 12 Then he shall take (B)a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, with his hands full of (C)sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil. 13 (D)And he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of incense may cover the (E)mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he (F)die.

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The Profane Fire of Nadab and Abihu

10 Then (A)Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, (B)each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered (C)profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. So (D)fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

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“Aaron shall burn on it (A)sweet incense every morning; when (B)he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it. And when Aaron lights the lamps [a]at twilight, he shall burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations. You shall not offer (C)strange incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering; nor shall you pour a drink offering on it.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 30:8 Lit. between the two evenings

41 And the other lamb you shall (A)offer [a]at twilight; and you shall offer with it the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord. 42 This shall be (B)a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord, (C)where I will meet you to speak with you.

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  1. Exodus 29:41 Lit. between the two evenings

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