The Altar of Incense

30 “You shall make an altar on which to offer incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.^(A)

⁸ and when Aaron sets up the lamps in the evening, he shall offer it, a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations.

¹⁶ It is they who shall enter my sanctuary; it is they who shall approach my table to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

⁷ By offering polluted food on my altar. And you say, “How have we polluted it?”^[a] By thinking that the Lord’s table may be despised.^(A)

¹² But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted and its food^[a] may be despised.

³ Another angel with a golden censer came and stood at the altar; he was given a great quantity of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne.^(A)