5 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Other Translations of Exodus 30:5

King James Version

5 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

English Standard Version

5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

The Message

5 Make the poles of acacia wood and cover them with a veneer of gold.

New King James Version

5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

New Living Translation

5 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 30:5

Commentary on Exodus 30:1-10

(Read Exodus 30:1-10)

The altar of incense represented the Son of God in his human nature, and the incense burned thereon typified his pleading for his people. The continual intercession of Christ was represented by the daily burning of incense thereon, morning and evening. Once every year the blood of the atonement was to be applied to it, denoting that the intercession of Christ has all its virtue from his sufferings on earth, and that we need no other sacrifice or intercessor but Christ alone.