Exodus 30:1-10
The Altar of Incense
30:1 “You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.
30:2 Its length is to be a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, with its horns of one piece with it.
30:3 You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top, its four walls, and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it.
30:4 You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. The rings will be places for poles to carry it with.
30:5 You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
30:6 “You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.
30:7 Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense.
30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations.
30:9 You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it.
30:10 Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement; once in the year he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”
Leviticus 2:1-3
Grain Offering Regulations: Offering of Raw Flour
2:1 “‘When a person presents a grain offering to the Lord, his offering must consist of choice wheat flour, and he must pour olive oil on it and put frankincense on it.
2:2 Then he must bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and the priest must scoop out from there a handful of its choice wheat flour and some of its olive oil in addition to all of its frankincense, and the priest must offer its memorial portion up in smoke on the altar – it is a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.
2:3 The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons – it is most holy from the gifts of the Lord.
Numbers 16:6
16:6 Do this, Korah, you and all your company:
Take censers,
Numbers 16:46
16:46 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the
Lord – the plague has begun!”
Luke 1:9
1:9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood,
to enter
the holy place
of the Lord and burn incense.
Revelation 8:3-4
8:3 Another
angel holding
a golden censer
came and was stationed
at the altar. A
large amount of incense was given to him to offer up, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar that is before the throne.
8:4 The
smoke coming from the incense,
along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.