Exodus 25:6
Shemen for the light, spices for shemen hamishchah (anointing oil) and aromatic ketoret (incense),
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
In Context
5And ram skins dyed red, and tachash skins, and acacia wood,
7Shoham stone, and stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the Choshen (Breastplate).
Cross References
Exodus 27:20And thou shalt command the Bnei Yisroel, that they bring thee pure pressed + 27:20 T.N. not pounded, that the oil would be pure shemen zayit (olive oil) for the ohr, to kindle the Ner Tamid (Perpetual Lamp).
Exodus 38:6And he made the carrying poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with nechoshet.
Numbers 4:16And to the pekuddat (oversight, office) of El'azar ben Aharon HaKohen pertaineth the Shemen HaMa'ohr (Oil of Illumination), and the incense spices, and the Minchat HaTamid (Continual Grain Offering), and the Shemen HaMishchah (Anointing Oil), and the Pekuddat Kol HaMishkan, and of all that therein is, in HaKodesh, and in the vessels thereof.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 25:2-10
The Tabernacle and Its Furniture. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. 3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, 4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, 5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood, 6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for… Read the whole commentary →