Exodus 40:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the covenant and set up the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You shall set the golden altar for the incense before the ark of the Testimony [outside the veil] and put the hanging or screen at the tabernacle door.

American Standard Version (1901)

And thou shalt set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

Common English Bible

Place the gold altar for burning incense in front of the chest containing the covenant. Set up the screen at the dwelling’s entrance.

Catholic Public Domain Version

and the altar of gold, in which the incense is burned, shall stand before the ark of the testimony. You shall place the tent at the entrance of the tabernacle,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And the altar of gold whereon the incense is burnt, before the ark of the testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle:

Exodus 40:5 Cross References

Exodus 30:6

You shall place it in front of the curtain that is above the ark of the covenant, in front of the cover that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.

Exodus 40:6

You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting

Numbers 4:5

“When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the covenant with it;

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.