Exodus 40:26
He put the golden incense altar into the tent of meeting in front of the curtain.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
In Context
25He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded him.
27He burned fragrant incense on it, as Yahweh had commanded him.
Cross References
Exodus 30:1You must make an altar to burn incense. You must make it with acacia wood.
Matthew 23:19You blind people! Which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?
John 17:1After Jesus said these things, he lifted up his eyes to the heavens and said, “Father, the hour has come, glorify your Son so that the Son will glorify you—
Hebrews 10:1For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the real forms of those things themselves. Those who approach God can never be made perfect by the same sacrifices that the priests continually bring year after year.
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 →