Exodus 30:38

30:38 Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, ¹  will be cut off from his people.”

Exodus 30:33

30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest ²  will be cut off ³  from his people.’”

[30:38]  ¹ tn Or to smell it, to use for the maker’s own pleasure.

[30:33]  ² tn Heb “a stranger,” meaning someone not ordained a priest.

[30:33]  ³ sn 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.