Exodus 30:9

Easy-to-Read Version

Don't use this altar for offering any other kind of incense or burnt offering or for any kind of grain offering or drink offering.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it.

King James Version
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.

Lexham English Bible
You will not offer on it strange incense or a burnt offering or a grain offering, and you will not pour a libation on it.

New Century Version
Do not use this altar for offering any other incense, or burnt offering, or any kind of grain offering, or drink offering.

New English Translation
You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it.

Amplified Bible
"You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal offering; you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering, or meal offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor offring, neither powre any drinke offring thereon.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar or burnt offering or grain offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.

Contemporary English Version
Burn only the proper incense on the altar and never use it for grain sacrifices or animal sacrifices or drink offerings.

Complete Jewish Bible
You are not to offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering or a grain offering; and you are not to pour a drink offering on it.

Darby Translation
Ye shall offer up no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor oblation; neither shall ye pour drink-offering thereon.

English Standard Version
You shall not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall not offer strange incense thereon, nor burnt offering, nor meat offering; neither shall you pour drink offering thereon.

Good News Translation
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.

Christian Standard Bible®
You must not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt or grain offering; you are not to pour a drink offering on it.

Literal Translation
You shall not offer up strange incense on it, and burnt offering and food offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering, to go up on it.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shall put no straunge incense therin, & offer no burntofferynge, ner meatofferynge, nether drynkofferynge theron.

American Standard Version
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering thereon.

Bible in Basic English
No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall offer no straunge incense thereon nor burnt sacrifice nor meate offeryng, neither powre any drinke offeryng thereon.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering thereon.

King James Version (1611)
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meate offering, neither shall ye powre drinke offering thereon.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt not offer strange incense upon it, nor and offering made by fire, nor a sacrifice; and thou shalt not pour a drink-offering upon it.

English Revised Version
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and ye shall pour no drink offering thereon.

Berean Standard Bible
On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering, nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye schulen not offre theronne encense of other makyng, nethir offryng, and slayn sacrifice, nether ye schulen offre fletynge offryngis thereonne.

Young's Literal Translation
`Ye do not cause strange perfume to go up upon it, and burnt-offering, and present, and libation ye do not pour out on it;

Update Bible Version
You shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering thereon.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall offer no strange incense upon it, nor burnt-sacrifice, nor meat-offering; neither shall ye pour drink-offering upon it.

World English Bible
You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it.

New King James Version
You shall not offer strange incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering; nor shall you pour a drink offering on it.

New Living Translation
Do not offer any unholy incense on this altar, or any burnt offerings, grain offerings, or liquid offerings.

New Life Bible
Do not give upon this altar any perfume, burnt gift or grain gift that is not holy. And do not pour out a drink gift on it.

New Revised Standard
You shall not offer unholy incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering; and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye shall not cause to ascend thereupon strange incense, nor an ascending-sacrifice, nor a meal-offering, - and a drink offering, shall ye not pour out thereupon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition, nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.

Revised Standard Version
You shall offer no unholy incense thereon, nor burnt offering, nor cereal offering; and you shall pour no libation thereon.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.

Contextual Overview

¹ "Make an altar from acacia wood. You will use this altar for burning incense. ² You must make the altar square—1 cubit long and 1 cubit wide. It must be 2 cubits high. There will be horns at the four corners. These horns must be made as one piece with the altar. ³ Cover the top, the horns, and all four sides of the altar with pure gold. Then put gold trim all around the altar. ⁴ Below this trim there should be two gold rings. There should be two gold rings on opposite sides of the altar. These gold rings will be used with poles to carry the altar. ⁵ Make the poles from acacia wood and cover them with gold. ⁶ Put the altar just outside the special curtain that hangs in front of the Box of the Agreement. So the altar will be in front of the mercy-cover that is above the Agreement. This is the place where I will meet with you. ⁷ "Aaron must burn sweet-smelling incense on the altar every morning. He will do this when he comes to care for the lamps. ⁸ He must burn incense again when he checks the lamps in the evening so that incense will be burned before the Lord every day forever. ⁹ Don't use this altar for offering any other kind of incense or burnt offering or for any kind of grain offering or drink offering. ¹⁰ "Once a year Aaron must make a special sacrifice. He will use the blood of the sin offering to erase the sins of the people. He will do this at the horns of this altar. This day will be called the Day of Atonement, and it will be a very special day for the Lord ."

Bible Verse Review
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Leviticus 10:1

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:13 - the drink Numbers 28:7 - to be poured

Cross-References

Genesis 16:3
So after living ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai gave her Egyptian slave to Abram as a second wife.

Genesis 29:35
Then Leah gave birth to another son. She named this son Judah. Leah named him this because she said, "Now I will praise the Lord ." Then Leah stopped having children.

Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave Bilhah to her husband Jacob. He had sexual relations with Bilhah.

Genesis 30:17
Then God allowed Leah to become pregnant again. She gave birth to a fifth son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon,.... Which had not the same, but was made of other materials, or had more or fewer; whatever was not exactly the same was not to be offered; and so to make use of other mediators than Christ, whether angels or men, or to put up prayer to God for the sake of our own righteousness, pleading the merits of our works, and not the blood, righteousness, and sacrifice of Christ, is to offer strange incense, unacceptable to God, and which will be of no avail to men:

nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; these were to be offered and burnt upon the altar of burnt offering;

neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon; as upon the other altar; everything in God's worship and service was to be done in the proper place and order; these offerings and sacrifices, though they were by divine appointment, yet must be offered on that altar which was peculiar for them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 37:25-28; Exodus 40:26-27. The altar of incense was to be a casing of boards of shittim wood Exodus 25:5, Exodus 25:18 inches square and three feet in height (taking the cubit as 18 inches), entirely covered with plates of gold. Four “horns” were to project upward at the corners like those of the altar of burnt-offering Exodus 27:2. A crown or moulding of gold was to run round the top. On each of two opposite sides there was to be a gold ring through which the staves were to be put when it was moved from place to place.

Exodus 30:4

By the two corners thereof - Not corners. See the margin. The sense appears to be: And two gold rings shalt thou make for it under its moulding; on its two sides shalt thou make them (i. e. one ring on each side).

Exodus 30:6

The place for the altar of incense was outside the veil, opposite to the ark of the covenant and between the candlestick on the south side and the showbread table on the north Exodus 40:22-24. It appears to have been regarded as having a more intimate connection with the holy of holies than the other things in the holy place; and the mention of the mercy-seat in this verse, if we associate with it the significance of incense as figuring the prayers of the Lord’s people Psalms 141:2; Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3-4, seems to furnish additional pound for an inference that the incense altar took precedence of the table of showbread and the candlestick.

Exodus 30:7

The lamps - See Exodus 25:37.

Exodus 30:7-8

The offering of the incense accompanied that of the morning and evening sacrifice. The two forms of offering symbolized the spirit of man reaching after communion with Yahweh, both in act and utterance. See Psalms 141:2.

Exodus 30:9

By this regulation, the symbolism of the altar of incense was kept free from ambiguity. atonement was made by means of the victim on the brazen altar in the court ontside; the prayers of the reconciled worshippers had their type within the tabernacle.

Exodus 30:10

See the marginal references.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 30:9. No strange incense — None made in any other way.

Nor burnt-sacrifice — It should be an altar for incense, and for no other use.