Exodus 30:37

And of the sweet incense which thou shalt make you must not make the like for yourselves; it shall be sacred to thee before the Lord.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.

In Context

36And thou shalt beat some of it and make it fine, and put thereof before the testimony in the tabernacle of ordinance, where I will appoint My Word to be with thee; to you it shall be most holy.

38The man who maketh the like of it, to smell thereto, shall be destroyed from his people.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:37Seven days must thou make expiation on the altar to sanctify it, and the altar shall be most holy; whosoever shall touch the altar let him be sanctified.

Leviticus 2:3And that which remaineth of the mincha shall be Aharon’s and his sons’; it is most holy among the oblations of the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 30:23-38

22 Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, 24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: 25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil. 26 And thou shalt anoint… Read the whole commentary →

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