The Samaritan inserts the first ten verses of this chapter after ver.

Exodus 30:32 On man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall you make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy...

of chap.

Exodus 30:26 And you shall anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,

. An altar

Exodus 30:7,8,10 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn incense on it...

Exodus 37:25-28 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare...

Exodus 40:5 And you shall set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.

Leviticus 4:7,18 And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD...

1 Kings 6:20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof...

2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God...

Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense...

to burn incense. Where so many sacrifices were offered, it was essentially necessary to have some pleasing perfume to counteract the disagreeable smells that must have arisen from the slaughter of so many animals, the burning of so much flesh, the sprinkling of the blood. No blood was ever sprinkled on this altar, except once a year, on the grand day of expiation. It was called also the golden altar (Nu.

Exodus 4:11 And the LORD said to him, Who has made man's mouth? or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

); and the incense was as constantly burnt on it every day, as the morning and evening sacrifice of a lamb was burnt on the brazen altar.