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.
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.
5. You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
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.
7. Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense.
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.