Exodus 30:26-29

26 aWith it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, 27and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, 28and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the bbasin and its stand. 29You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy. cWhatever touches them will become holy.

Numbers 16:38-39

38As for the censers of dthese men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. eThus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.” 39So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,

Matthew 23:19

19You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or fthe altar that makes the gift sacred?
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