Bible Verses About Altar

You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

And you must not go up to My altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.’

“You are also to make an altar of acacia wood for the burning of incense.

It is to be square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns must be of one piece.

Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.

And make two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.

Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Place the altar in front of the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony—before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony—where I will meet with you.

And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.

When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for the generations to come.

On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.

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 of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”

Use this oil to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony,

the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,

He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns were of one piece.

And he overlaid with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns. Then he made a molding of gold around it.

He made two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.

And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

Moses placed the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting, in front of the veil,

and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.

The priest must then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. And he is to pour out the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

He is also to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting, and he must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Moses slaughtered the bull, took some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it.