OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 30:3

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You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.

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Verse 3. Grate, or covering. Some think the fire and incense were placed on this grate, and the ashes fell under the altar. But fire was taken hence, and put in the thuribles; (Numbers 16:17. Calmet.) or a brazen thurible was placed on the fire. Leviticus 10:1. Menochius.—Walls, or sides, of setim-wood.—Crown, cornice or moulding. See Calmet. 25:25.

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