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Exodus 30:1-10. The incense altar. Object-only design study of gold-covered incense altar with four horns, carrying poles and restrained fragrant smoke. No people, faces or hands. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 30:1-10

The incense altar

Story guide: Yahweh describes a gold-covered altar for burning incense before the veil.

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1And you shall make an altar for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

2Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit; it shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

3You shall overlay it with pure gold—its top, its walls all around, and its horns—and you shall make for it a gold molding all around.

4And you shall make two gold rings for it under its molding; on its two side panels you shall make them, on its two sides, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.

5And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

6And you shall place it before 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.

7Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it morning by morning; when he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

8And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense, before Yahweh throughout your generations.

9You shall not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.

10Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once a year throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.

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