Exodus 30:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ »Build an altar out of acacia wood for burning incense.

⁷ »Aaron must burn sweet incense on this altar every morning when he takes care of the lamps. ⁸ »When Aaron lights the lamps at dusk he must burn incense. An incense offering must burn (smoke) constantly in Jehovah’s presence for generations to come.

¹⁰ »Once a year Aaron must make atonement with Jehovah by putting blood on its horns. Once a year for generations to come blood from the offering must be placed on the altar to make atonement with Jehovah. It is most holy to Jehovah.«

²⁵ He made an altar out of acacia wood for burning incense. It was eighteen inches square and thirty-six inches high. The horns and altar were made out of one piece of wood. ²⁶ All of it was covered with pure gold, the top, the sides, and the horns. He put a gold molding around it. ²⁷ He made two gold rings and put them below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles for carrying it. ²⁸ Then the poles were made out of acacia wood and covered with gold.

⁵ »Put the gold altar for burning incense in front of the Covenant Box and hang the curtain at the entrance of the Tabernacle.

⁷ »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 copper altar near the entrance to the tent.

¹⁸ »He will put some blood on the horns of the altar in Jehovah’s presence in the Tent of Meeting. He will pour the remaining blood at the bottom of the altar. This is for burnt offerings at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

²⁰ This inner room was thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high, all covered with pure gold. The altar was covered with cedar panels.

¹⁶ However when he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He was unfaithful to Jehovah his God. He went into Jehovah’s Temple to burn incense on the incense altar.

³ Another angel, with a golden incense vessel, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense so he could offer it with the prayers of all the holy ones upon the golden altar before the throne.