3 Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top
3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it.
3 Cover it with a veneer of pure gold, its top, sides, and horns, and make a gold molding around it
3 And you shall overlay its top, its sides all around, and its horns with pure gold; and you shall make for it a molding of gold all around.
3 Overlay the top, sides, and horns of the altar with pure gold, and run a gold molding around the entire altar.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 30:3
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.