출애굽기 Chapter 30

Translation: ESV

1

You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

Key Message

A distinct place and manner of worshiping God are appointed by God himself, and worship must conform to God's standard rather than human convenience.

▸Instructions begin for the altar of incense to be placed before the Holy of Holies inside the tabernacle.

Instructions begin for the altar of incense to be placed before the Holy of Holies inside the tabernacle. The altar of incense is made separately from the altar of burnt offering (Exodus 27) and is set apart for the special purpose of offering fragrant incense before God. Acacia wood is the hardest and most durable timber available in the wilderness, symbolizing God's eternality.

Related Verses

And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne.
7

And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.

Key Message

Worship offered to God must be rendered regularly every morning, and our days must begin in God's presence.

▸Incense is burned twice daily by the high priest—morning and evening.

10

Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.

Key Message

Even the center of worship requires atonement because of sin, and every path leading to God is possible only through atonement.

▸The altar of incense is not only the site of daily incense worship but also the place where a special atonement ritual is performed once a year on the Day of Atonement.

12

When you take a census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.

Key Message

Our lives belong to God, and acknowledging this is the first step of worship that is fitting to God.

▸A regulation requiring the payment of a ransom (atonement money) whenever a census is taken.

18

You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

Key Message

Those who worship must first be made pure, and this prefigures being cleansed by Christ's blood.

▸The bronze basin is used for the purification rites required for tabernacle worship.

34

The LORD said to Moses, 'Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part).'

Key Message

Worship offered to God requires precise devotion and distinctness, and cannot be mixed with secular purposes.

▸The ingredients and method for producing the special incense are specified.