Exodus 30:1-5
The Altar of Incense
1 a“You shall make ban altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. 2A cubit ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. dIts horns shall be of one piece with it. 3You shall eoverlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. 4And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be fholders for poles with which to carry it. 5You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. Exodus 35:25-28
25And every gskillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. 26All the women hwhose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats’ hair. 27And the ileaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece, 28and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.Exodus 37:25-28
Making the Altar of Incense
25 jHe made the altar of incense of acacia wood. Its length was a cubit, and its breadth was a cubit. It was square, and two cubits was its height. Its horns were of one piece with it. 26He overlaid it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And he made a molding of gold around it, 27and made two rings of gold on it under its molding, on two opposite sides of it, as holders for the poles with which to carry it. 28And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.Exodus 40:26-27
26 kHe put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, 27and burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.John 14:6
6Jesus said to him, “I am lthe way, and mthe truth, and nthe life. No one comes to the Father except through me.Hebrews 9:24
24For Christ has entered, not into holy places omade with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God pon our behalf.Hebrews 10:19-22
The Full Assurance of Faith
19 qTherefore, brothers, ▼▼Or brothers and sisters
since we have confidence to enter sthe holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20by tthe new and living way that he opened for us through uthe curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21and since we have va great priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts wsprinkled clean xfrom an evil conscience and our bodies ywashed with pure water.
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