1. ‘Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense.
2. It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high – its horns of one piece with it.
3. Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold moulding around it.
4. Make two gold rings for the altar below the moulding – two on each of the opposite sides – to hold the poles used to carry it.
5. Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6. Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law – before the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the covenant law – where I will meet with you.
7. ‘Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.