3 You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top, its four walls, and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it.
4 You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. The rings will be places for poles to carry it with.
5 You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6 “You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.
7 Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense.
8 When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations.
9 You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it.