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 In ancient Israel, entry into the Most Holy before the symbolic presence of Jehovah was limited to the high priest.  For him, carrying incense was a life-or-death matter.  Jehovah's law said: "[Aaron] must take the fire holder full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before Jehovah and the hollows of both his hands full of fine perfumed incense, and he must bring them inside the curtain. He must also put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, and the cloud of the incense must overspread the Ark cover, which upon the Testimony, that he  may not die." (Leviticus 16:12, 13) It was impossible for the high priest to penetrate successfully into the Most Holy unless he burned incense.

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