1 For burning incense you shall make an altar of acacia wood,
2 with a square surface, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high, with horns that are of one piece with it.
3 Its grate on top, its walls on all four sides, and its horns you shall plate with pure gold. Put a gold molding around it.
4 Underneath the molding you shall put gold rings, two on one side and two on the opposite side, as holders for the poles used in carrying it.
5 Make the poles, too, of acacia wood and plate them with gold.
6 This altar you are to place in front of the veil that hangs before the ark of the covenant where I will meet you.
7 On it Aaron shall burn fragrant incense. Morning after morning, when he prepares the lamps,