olive oil for the lamp; sweet-smelling spices to mix with the incense and with the oil for dedicating the tent and ordaining the priests;

The Altar for Burning Incense

(Exodus 37.25-28)

The Lord said to Moses:

Build an altar of acacia wood where you can burn incense.

From now on, when Aaron takes care of the lamps each morning and evening, he must burn sweet-smelling incense to me on the altar.

Burn only the proper incense on the altar and never use it for grain sacrifices or animal sacrifices or drink offerings.

the table with its equipment, the lampstand with its equipment, the incense altar with all its utensils,

The Sweet-Smelling Incense

Mix equal amounts of the costly spices stacte, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense, then add salt to make the mixture pure and holy.

Pound some of it into powder and sprinkle it in front of the sacred chest, where I meet with you. Be sure to treat this incense as something very holy.

the sacred tent with its furnishings, the sacred chest with its place of mercy, the table with all that is on it, the lamp with its equipment, the incense altar, the altar for sacrifices with its equipment, the bronze bowl with its stand, the beautiful priestly clothes for Aaron and his sons, the oil for dedication and ordination services, and the sweet-smelling incense for the holy place.

olive oil for the lamp; sweet-smelling spices for the oil of dedication and for the incense; or

the incense altar with its carrying poles and sweet-smelling incense; the ordination oil; the curtain for the entrance to the sacred tent;

They also brought sweet-smelling spices to be mixed with the incense and olive oil that were for the lamps and for ordaining the priests.

The Altar for Burning Incense

(Exodus 30.1-5)

For burning incense, Bezalel made an altar of acacia wood. It was 45 centimeters square and 90 centimeters high with each of its four corners sticking up like the horn of a bull.

The Oil for Dedication and the Incense

(Exodus 30.22-38)

Bezalel mixed the sacred oil for dedication and the pure spices for the sweet-smelling incense.

the gold-covered incense altar; the ordination oil and the sweet-smelling incense; the curtain for the entrance to the tent;

Then place the gold altar of incense in front of the sacred chest and hang a curtain at the entrance to the tent.

The gold incense altar was set up in front of the curtain,

and sweet-smelling incense was burned on it. These things were done exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Sacrifices To Give Thanks to the Lord

The Lord said:

When you offer sacrifices to give thanks to me, you must use only your finest flour. Put it in a dish, sprinkle olive oil and incense on the flour,

and take it to the priests from Aaron's family. One of them will scoop up the incense together with a handful of the flour and oil. Then, to show that the whole offering belongs to me, the priest will lay this part on the bronze altar and send it up in smoke with a smell that pleases me.

You must mix in some olive oil and put incense on top, because this is a grain sacrifice.

A priest will sprinkle all of the incense and some of the grain and oil on the altar and send them up in smoke to show that the whole offering belongs to me.

Then, in my presence, he will smear some of the blood on each of the four corners of the incense altar, before pouring out the rest at the foot of the bronze altar near the entrance to the tent.

Then, in my presence, he must smear some of the blood on each of the four corners of the incense altar, before pouring out the rest at the foot of the bronze altar near the entrance to the tent.

If you are so poor that you cannot afford doves or pigeons, you may bring one kilogram of your finest flour. This is a sacrifice to ask my forgiveness, so don't sprinkle olive oil or sweet-smelling incense on it.

where one of them will scoop up a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the incense on it. Then, to show that the whole offering belongs to me, he will lay all of this on the altar and send it up in smoke with a smell that pleases me.