The Altar of Incense
(Exodus 37:25–29)
“You are also to make an altar of acacia wood for the burning of incense. Rev 8:3Exo 37:25-28Exo 40:5Lev 4:71Ki 6:202Ch 26:16Exo 30:10Exo 30:7-8 It is to be square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. 1 Its horns must be of one piece. Exo 27:2 Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it. Exo 25:11Exo 25:24 And make two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it. Exo 25:27Exo 25:12Exo 25:14Exo 26:29Exo 27:4Exo 27:7 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. Exo 25:13Exo 25:27
Place the altar in front of the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony 2—before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony—where I will meet with you. Exo 25:21-221Ch 28:11Exo 26:31-35Exo 29:42-43Exo 30:36Exo 40:26Exo 40:3Exo 40:5 And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps. 1Sa 2:281Ch 23:13Exo 27:20-21Luk 1:91Sa 3:3Act 6:4Exo 30:34 When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, 3 he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for the generations to come. Heb 9:241Th 5:17Exo 12:6Heb 7:25Rom 8:34 On this altar you must not offer unauthorized 4incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it. Lev 10:1
Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering 5of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.” Lev 16:18Heb 9:22-23Exo 29:36-37Heb 9:25Lev 16:29-30Lev 16:5-6Lev 23:27Heb 1:3
The Census Offering
(2 Samuel 24:1–9; 1 Chronicles 21:1–6)
Then the LORD said to Moses, “When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered. Num 31:501Ch 27:241Pe 1:18-19Exo 38:25-26Mat 20:28Psa 49:71Ch 21:121Ch 21:14 Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, 6 according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. 7 This half shekel is an offering to the LORD. Lev 27:25Num 3:47Ezk 45:12Exo 38:26Mat 17:24Mat 27:24
Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD. Num 1:20Num 1:18Num 1:3Num 14:29Num 26:2Num 32:11 In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less. Num 31:50Eph 6:9Exo 30:12Job 34:19Lev 17:112Sa 21:3Col 3:25Pro 22:2 Take the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your lives.” Neh 10:32-33Num 16:40Exo 12:14Exo 38:25-31Luk 22:19
The Bronze Basin
(Exodus 38:8)
And the LORD said to Moses, “You are to make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. Set it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it, Exo 40:7Exo 38:81Ki 7:231Ki 7:382Ch 4:14-152Ch 4:2Exo 40:30-321Jn 1:7 with which Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet. Isa 52:11Exo 40:31-32Psa 26:6Heb 10:221Co 6:9-11Heb 9:10Tit 3:5Jhn 13:8-10 Whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister by presenting an offering made by fire to the LORD, they must wash with water so that they will not die. 1Ch 13:101Sa 6:19Act 5:5Exo 12:15Heb 12:28-29Lev 10:1-3Lev 16:1-2Psa 89:7 Thus they are to wash their hands and feet so that they will not die; this shall be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.” Exo 28:43Exo 27:21
The Anointing Oil
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, 8 half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 9 250 shekels of fragrant cane, 10 Ezk 27:19Sng 4:14Ezk 27:22Jer 6:20Exo 37:29Pro 7:17Psa 45:8Sng 1:13 500 shekels of cassia 11—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil. 12 Exo 29:40Psa 45:8Ezk 45:12Lev 19:36Num 15:5Num 3:47 Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil. Exo 37:291Ch 9:30Exo 40:9Psa 133:2Psa 89:20Num 35:25Heb 1:9
Use this oil to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony, Num 7:11Jn 2:201Jn 2:272Co 1:21-22Act 10:38Exo 40:9-15Isa 61:1Lev 8:10-12 the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand. You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy. Exo 29:37Lev 6:18Mat 23:19Mat 23:17 Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them to serve Me as priests. Lev 8:12Exo 28:3Exo 29:7-37Exo 40:15Lev 8:30Num 3:3
And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘This will be My sacred anointing oil for the generations to come. Exo 37:29Lev 21:10Lev 8:12Psa 89:20 It must not be used to anoint an ordinary man, and you must not make anything like it with the same formula. It is holy, and it must be holy to you. Exo 30:25Exo 30:37-38Lev 21:10Mat 7:6 Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’” Exo 30:38Gen 17:14Exo 12:15Exo 12:19Exo 29:33Heb 10:26-29Lev 17:4Lev 17:9
The Incense
The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures, Exo 37:29Exo 25:6Exo 30:23Lev 2:15Lev 2:1Lev 24:7Lev 5:11Mat 2:11 and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. Exo 30:25Lev 2:13Jhn 12:3Pro 27:9Sng 1:3Sng 3:6 Grind some of it into fine powder and place it in front of the Testimony 13in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you. Exo 25:22Exo 16:34Exo 29:42-43Exo 30:6Lev 16:2 You are never to use this formula to make incense for yourselves; you shall regard it as holy to the LORD. Exo 29:37Exo 30:32-33Lev 2:3 Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.” Exo 30:33