Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Exo 37:25-28; Exo 40:26-27. The altar of incense was to be a casing of boards of shittim wood Exo 25:5, Exo 25:18 inches square and three feet in height (taking the cubit as 18 inches), entirely…
Adam Clarke
No strange incense - None made in any other way.
Nor burnt-sacrifice - It should be an altar for incense, and for no other use.
I. The orders given concerning the altar of incense are, 1. That it was to be made of wood, and covered with gold, pure gold, about a yard high and half a yard square, with horns at the corners, a…
Cambridge Bible
The altar is to be reserved exclusively for incense, and for incense moreover made from the authorized prescription (v.34 ff.).
strange i.e. strange to the law, unauthorized; cf. - strangefire," Lev…