7. Every morning when Aaron comes to get the lamps ready, he is to burn sweet-smelling incense on it.
8. He must do the same when he lights the lamps in the evening. This offering of incense is to continue without interruption for all time to come.
9. Do not offer on this altar any forbidden incense, any animal offering, or any grain offering, and do not pour out any wine offering on it.
10. Once a year Aaron is to perform the ritual for purifying the altar by putting on its four projections the blood of the animal sacrificed for sin. This is to be done every year for all time to come. This altar is to be completely holy, dedicated to me, the Lord.”
11. The Lord said to Moses,