1. “You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.
2. Its length is to be a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, with its horns of one piece with it.
3. You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top, its four walls, and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it.
4. You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. The rings will be places for poles to carry it with.
5. You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6. “You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.