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Text -- Exodus 30:22-38 (NET)
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Oil and Incense
30:22 The Lord spoke to Moses :
30:23 “Take choice spices : twelve and a half pounds of free-flowing myrrh , half that– about six and a quarter pounds – of sweet-smelling cinnamon , six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane ,
30:24 and twelve and a half pounds of cassia , all weighed according to the sanctuary shekel , and four quarts of olive oil .
30:25 You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil , a perfumed compound , the work of a perfumer . It will be sacred anointing oil .
30:26 “With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting , the ark of the testimony ,
30:27 the table and all its utensils , the lampstand and its utensils , the altar of incense ,
30:28 the altar for the burnt offering and all its utensils , and the laver and its base .
30:29 So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy ; anything that touches them will be holy .
30:30 “You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests .
30:31 And you are to tell the Israelites : ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations .
30:32 It must not be applied to people’s bodies , and you must not make any like it with the same recipe . It is holy , and it must be holy to you.
30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people .’”
30:34 The Lord said to Moses : “Take spices , gum resin , onycha , galbanum , and pure frankincense of equal amounts
30:35 and make it into an incense , a perfume , the work of a perfumer . It is to be finely ground , and pure and sacred .
30:36 You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.
30:37 And the incense that you are to make , you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe ; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the Lord .
30:38 Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume , will be cut off from his people .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
PERFUMES |
Tabernacle |
Ointment |
Spices |
EXCOMMUNICATION |
Revelation |
Israel |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
OIL, ANOINTING |
Incense |
Anointing |
Anointing Oil |
Church |
Oil |
Frankincense |
COMPOSITION; COMPOUND |
Altar |
MEDICINE |
Myrrh |
Onycha |
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NET Notes -> Exo 30:22; Exo 30:22; Exo 30:23; Exo 30:23; Exo 30:23; Exo 30:23; Exo 30:24; Exo 30:24; Exo 30:25; Exo 30:25; Exo 30:25; Exo 30:29; Exo 30:29; Exo 30:29; Exo 30:30; Exo 30:32; Exo 30:33; Exo 30:33; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:35; Exo 30:35; Exo 30:35; Exo 30:38
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NET Notes: Exo 30:23 Myrrh is an aromatic substance that flows from the bark of certain trees in Arabia and Africa and then hardens. “The hardened globules of the gu...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:24 Or “a hin.” A hin of oil is estimated at around one gallon (J. Durham, Exodus [WBC], 3:406).
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NET Notes: Exo 30:25 The somewhat rare words rendered “a perfumed compound” are both associated with a verbal root having to do with mixing spices and other in...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:29 See Exod 29:37; as before, this could refer to anything or anyone touching the sanctified items.
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NET Notes: Exo 30:30 The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive follows the imperfect of instruction; it may be equal to the instruction, but more likely shows the p...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:32 Without an expressed subject, the verb may be treated as a passive. Any common use, as in personal hygiene, would be a complete desecration.
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NET Notes: Exo 30:33 The rabbinic interpretation of this is that it is a penalty imposed by heaven, that the life will be cut short and the person could die childless.
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NET Notes: Exo 30:35 The word מְמֻלָּח (mÿmullakh), a passive participle, is usually taken to mean “salted.̶...
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