¹ And make an altar for burning incense: of acacia wood shalt thou make it ² A cubit its length, a cubit its breadth; it shall be four-square; and two cubits its height: its horns out of it. ³ And spread it over with pure gold its top, and its walls round about, and its horns: and make to it a gold wreath round about ⁴ And two gold rings shalt thou make to it from under its crown, upon its two ribs, shalt thou make upon its two sides; and it was for inner parts for staves to lift it up by them. ⁵ And make staves of acacia wood, and spread them over with gold.

⁶ And give it before the vail that is upon the ark of the testimonies, before the cover which is upon the testimonies, where I will meet with thee there. ⁷ And Aaron to burn upon it incense of spices in the morning: in the morning in his adorning the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it ⁸ And in Aaron's causing the lamps, to ascend between the two evenings, he shall burn incense upon it; continually before Jehovah for your generations. ⁹ And ye shall not bring up upon it strange incense; and a burnt-offering, a sacrifice and a libation thou shalt not pour out upon it.

¹⁰ And Aaron to expiate upon its horns once in a year, from the blood of the sin of the expiation: once in a year he shall expiate upon it for your generations: it is holy of holies to Jehovah.