1. “You are to make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense.
2. It is to be square—one cubit in length, one cubit wide, and two cubits high. The horns must be of one piece with it.
3. You are to overlay it with pure gold on top, all around the sides and over the horns. Also you are to make a crown of gold for it all around.
4. Make two golden rings for it under the crown on the two sides, and they will be holders for poles to carry it.
5. Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6. You are to set it in front of the curtain that is in front of the Ark of the Testimony, in front of the atonement cover that is over the Testimony, where I will meet with you.
7. “Aaron must burn sweet spices of incense there every morning. When he attends to the lamps, he is to burn it.
8. Also when Aaron keeps the lamps lit at dusk he must burn it. There must be incense continually before Adonai, throughout your generations.
9. You must not offer up unauthorized incense on it. Nor should any burnt offering or grain offering be there, nor should you pour any drink offering there.
10. Aaron is to make atonement upon the horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering throughout your generations. It is most holy to Adonai.”
11. Then Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
12. “When you tally the sum of Bnei-Yisrael by numbering them, then every man must pay a ransom for his soul to Adonai when you count them, so that no plague will fall on them.