(35) Thus you shall do to Aaron and his sons, just as I have commanded you. You shall ordain them through seven days, (36) and each day you shall prepare a bull as a sin offering for expiation; you shall purge the altar by performing purification upon it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it. (37) Seven days you shall perform purification for the altar to consecrate it, and the altar shall become most holy; whatever touches the altar shall become consecrated. (38) Now this is what you shall offer upon the altar: two yearling lambs each day, regularly. (39) You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at twilight. (40) There shall be a tenth of a measure of choice flour with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil mixed in, and a libation of a quarter hin of wine for one lamb; (41) and you shall offer the other lamb at twilight, repeating with it the meal offering of the morning with its libation—an offering by fire for a pleasing odour to the ETERNAL, (42) a regular burnt offering throughout the generations, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before the ETERNAL. For there I will meet with you, and there I will speak with you, (43) and there I will meet with the Israelites, and it shall be sanctified by My Presence. (44) I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests. (45) I will abide among the Israelites, and I will be their God. (46) And they shall know that I the ETERNAL am their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt that I might abide among them, I the ETERNAL their God.

(1) You shall make an altar for burning incense; make it of acacia wood. (2) It shall be a cubit long and a cubit wide—it shall be square—and two cubits high, its horns of one piece with it. (3) Overlay it with pure gold: its top, its sides round about, and its horns; and make a gold molding for it round about. (4) And make two gold rings for it under its molding; make them on its two side walls, on opposite sides. They shall serve as holders for poles with which to carry it. (5) Make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

(6) Place it in front of the curtain that is over the Ark of the Pact—in front of the cover that is over the Pact—where I will meet with you. (7) On it Aaron shall burn aromatic incense: he shall burn it every morning when he tends the lamps, (8) and Aaron shall burn it at twilight when he lights the lamps—a regular incense offering before the ETERNAL throughout the ages. (9) You shall not offer alien incense on it, or a burnt offering or a meal offering; neither shall you pour a libation on it. (10) Once a year Aaron shall perform purification upon its horns with blood of the sin offering of purification; purification shall be performed upon it once a year throughout the ages. It is most holy to the ETERNAL.