3 Cover its top, all four sides, and its projections with pure gold, and put a gold border round it.
4 Make two gold carrying rings for it and attach them below the border on two sides to hold the poles with which it is to be carried.
5 Make these poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold.
6 Put this altar outside the curtain which hangs in front of the Covenant Box. That is the place where I will meet you.
7 Every morning when Aaron comes to get the lamps ready, he is to burn sweet-smelling incense on it.
8 He must do the same when he lights the lamps in the evening. This offering of incense is to continue without interruption for all time to come.
9 Do not offer on this altar any forbidden incense, any animal offering, or any grain offering, and do not pour out any wine offering on it.