Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. Acacia and gold for the carrying poles — the same materials as all the other carrying mechanisms in the tabernacle. The consistency of construction across all the tabernacle's furniture and its carrying equipment communicates the integrated nature of the covenant worship system: there is no lesser component, no second-tier material. The poles that carry the altar of incense are as carefully made as the altar itself. The transportation of the holy is as holy as the holy thing being transported.

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