Exodus 40:26
Moses set up the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting, in front of the veil,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
In Context
25and put up the lamps in the presence of the Lord, as the Lord had ordered him to do.
27and he burned aromatic incense on it, as the Lord had ordered him to do.
Cross References
Exodus 30:1“Make from acacia wood an altar for burning incense.
Matthew 23:19How foolish and blind you are! What is greater—the sacrifice, or the altar that makes the sacrifice holy?
John 17:1When Jesus finished saying this he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you.
Hebrews 10:1The law is just a shadow of the good that was to come, and not the actual reality. So it can never through the repeated sacrifices offered year after year make right those who come to worship God.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 40:17-34
16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he. 17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. 18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. 19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses. 20 And he took and put the… Read the whole commentary →