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144. The Golden Altar of Incense (#97680)
144. The Golden Altar of Incense
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Manners and Customs of the Bible
By:
James M. Freeman
• 1 min. read • grade level: 7
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Exodus 40:5
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And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle. (Exodus 40:5)
. Thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony.
This was made of acacia wood covered with gold. It was two cubits high, one cubit in length, and one in breadth. It had four “horns” or projections on tin four corners at the top, and like the ark and the table of show-bread, it had a corners of gold, and rings and staves for transportation. The rings were of gold, and the staves of acacia wood covered with gold (
Ex. 37:25-28
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And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
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And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
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And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.
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And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. (Exodus 37:25‑28)
). Its position wit; in the west end of the Holy Place, near the veil which concealed the Most Holy Place (
Ex. 40:26
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And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail: (Exodus 40:26)
). It was thus immediately in front of the Ark of the Covenant, though separated from it by the veil.
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