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

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

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

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

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

'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;

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

Non offeretis super illud suffitum alium, neque holocaustum, neque minha: sed nec libamen libabitis super illud.

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.

No strange incense - None made in any other way.
Nor burnt-sacrifice - It should be an altar for incense, and for no other use.

Ye shall offer no (e) strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering (f) thereon.
(e) Otherwise made them this, which is described.
(f) But it must only serve to burn perfume.

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.

Ye shall offer no strange incense--that is, of a different composition from that of which the ingredients are described so minutely.