1 Build an altar of acacia wood where you can burn incense.
2 Make it forty-five centimetres square and ninety centimetres high, and make each of its four corners stick up like the horn of a bull.
3 Cover it with pure gold and put a gold edging around it.
4 Then below the edging on opposite sides attach two gold rings through which you can put the poles for carrying the altar.
5 These poles are also to be made of acacia wood covered with gold.
6 Put the altar in front of the inside curtain of the sacred tent. The chest with the place of mercy is kept behind that curtain, and I will talk with you there.
7-8 From now on, when Aaron tends the lamp each morning and evening, he must burn sweet-smelling incense to me on the altar.