Exodus 30:35

and tell an expert perfumer to mix them together to make some perfume. Add some salt to keep it pure and make it holy.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

In Context

34Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “ Tell the people to take equal parts of several sweet spices—stacte, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—

36Beat some of it into a fine powder. Then take some of it into the Sacred Tent and sprinkle it in front of the sacred chest. You must all consider this incense to be very holy.

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Cross References

Exodus 28:41Put these clothes on your older brother Aaron and on his sons. Then ◄set them apart/dedicate them► for this work by anointing them with olive oil, in order that they may serve me by being priests.

Leviticus 2:13Put salt on all your offerings that are made from grain. The salt represents the agreement that your God made with you, so be sure that you do not forget to put salt on those offerings.

1 Kings 1:39There Zadok took the container of olive oil from the Sacred Tent and ◄anointed/poured some oil on► Solomon. Then the trumpets were blown, and all the people shouted, “We hope/wish that King Solomon will live for many years!”

Psalms 133:2It is as delightful as the precious/expensive ◄ olive oil/perfume► that runs down from the Supreme Priest Aaron’s head onto his beard when he is anointed and runs down onto the collar of his robes.

Song of Solomon 1:3The fragrance of the cologne on your skin is very sweet/pleasing [CHI]. And your reputation is very good and spreads, like [SIM] the fragrance of the special oil spread on your skin. That is why the other young women are attracted to you.

John 12:3Then Mary took a bottle of expensive perfume called nard and poured it on Jesus’ feet to honor him. Then she wiped his feet with her hair. The whole house was filled with the beautiful smell of the perfume.

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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