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1 [“] You are also to make an altar of acacia wood for the burning of incense. 2 It is to be square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high <1.5 ft x 1.5 ft x 3 ft / 45.7 cm x 45.7 cm x 91.4 cm>. Its horns must be of one piece. 3 Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it. 4 And make two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it. 5 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 6 Place the altar in front of the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony (the ark of the covenant) before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony—where I will meet with you. 7 And Aaron (light bringer) is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps. 8 When Aaron (light bringer) sets up the lamps at twilight \between the two evenings/, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD {YHWH} for the generations to come. 9 On this altar you⁺ must not offer unauthorized (strange) incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you⁺ to pour a drink offering on it. 10 Once a year Aaron (light bringer) shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your⁺ generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering (purification offering) of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD {YHWH}.” 11 Then the LORD {YHWH} said to Moses (drawn out), 12 “When you take a census of the Israelites (God prevails) to number them, each man must pay the LORD {YHWH} a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered. 13 Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel <0.2 oz / 5.7 g>, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs <0.4 oz / 11.4 g>. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD {YHWH}. Exodus 30:1-13, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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