3. Cover it with pure gold and put a gold edging around it.
4. Then below the edging on opposite sides attach two gold rings through which you can put the poles for carrying the altar.
5. These poles are also to be made of acacia wood covered with gold.
6. Put the altar in front of the inside curtain of the sacred tent. The chest with the place of mercy is kept behind that curtain, and I will talk with you there.
9. Burn only the proper incense on the altar and never use it for grain sacrifices or animal sacrifices or drink offerings.
23-25. Mix four litres of olive oil with the following costly spices: six kilogrammes of myrrh, three kilogrammes of cinnamon, three kilogrammes of cane, and six kilogrammes of cassia. Measure these according to the official standards. Then use this sacred mixture
26. for dedicating the tent and chest,
27. the table with its equipment, the lampstand with its equipment, the incense altar with all its utensils,
28. the altar for sacrifices, and the large bowl with its stand.
29. By dedicating them in this way, you will make them so holy that anyone who even touches them will become holy.
30. When you ordain Aaron and his sons as my priests, sprinkle them with some of this oil,
31. and say to the people of Israel: “This oil must always be used in the ordination service of a priest. It is holy because it is dedicated to the Lord.
32. So treat it as holy! Don't ever use it for everyday purposes or mix any for yourselves.
33. If you do, you will no longer belong to the Lord's people.”