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Bible Verses About Altar

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  1. `An altar of earth thou dost make for Me, and thou hast sacrificed on it thy burnt-offerings and thy peace-offerings, thy flock and thy herd; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered I come in unto thee, and have blessed thee.

  2. `And if an altar of stones thou dost make to Me, thou dost not build them of hewn work; when thy tool thou hast waved over it, then thou dost pollute it;

  3. neither dost thou go up by steps on Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not revealed upon it.

  4. `And thou hast made an altar for making perfume; of shittim wood thou dost make it;

  5. a cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth, (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns are of the same.

  6. `And thou hast overlaid it with pure gold, its top, and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou hast made to it a crown of gold round about;

  7. and two rings of gold thou dost make to it under its crown; on its two ribs thou dost make them , on its two sides, and they have become places for staves, to bear it with them.

  8. `And thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold;

  9. and thou hast put it before the vail, which is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat which is over the testimony, whither I am met with thee.

  10. `And Aaron hath made perfume on it, perfume of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right he doth perfume it,

  11. and in Aaron's causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he doth perfume it; a continual perfume before Jehovah to your generations.

  12. `Ye do not cause strange perfume to go up upon it, and burnt-offering, and present, and libation ye do not pour out on it;

  13. and Aaron hath made atonement on its horns, once in a year, by the blood of the sin-offering of atonements; once in a year doth he make atonement for it, to your generations; it is most holy to Jehovah.'

  14. `And thou hast anointed with it the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony,

  15. and the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels, and the altar of perfume,

  16. And he maketh the perfume-altar of shittim wood; a cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth (square), and two cubits its height; its horns have been of the same;

  17. and he overlayeth it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about, and its horns; and he maketh for it a wreath of gold round about;

  18. and two rings of gold he hath made for it under its wreath, at its two corners, at its two sides, for places for staves to bear it with them.

  19. And he maketh the staves of shittim wood, and overlayeth them with gold;

  20. `And thou hast put the golden altar for perfume before the ark of the testimony, and hast put the covering of the opening to the tabernacle,

  21. And he setteth the golden altar in the tent of meeting, before the vail,

  22. and maketh perfume on it--spice-perfume--as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

  23. and the priest hath put of the blood on the horns of the altar of spice-perfume before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting, and all the blood of the bullock he doth pour out at the foundation of the altar of the burnt-offering, which is at the opening of the tent of meeting.

  24. and some of the blood he doth put on the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood he doth pour out at the foundation of the altar of the burnt-offering, which is at the opening of the tent of meeting;

  25. and one slaughtereth, and Moses taketh the blood, and putteth on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and cleanseth the altar, and the blood he hath poured out at the foundation of the altar, and sanctifieth it, to make atonement upon it.