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32 Do not put it on the bodies of anyone, except priests. Do not use spices like this to make oil for yourselves. It is holy and you must always think about it as holy. 33 Nobody must make a perfume that has a sweet smell like this oil. Nobody must put this oil on any person who is not a priest. Anyone who does not obey this rule will no longer belong to my people.” ’

34 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Use the same amount of each of these sweet spices to make some incense: gum resin, onycha, galbanum and frankincense.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 30:34 ‘gum resin’ is a sticky liquid that comes from a tree. ‘galbanum’ and ‘onycha’ are the names of spices.

32 Do not pour it on anyone else’s body and do not make any other oil using the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred.(A) 33 Whoever makes perfume like it and puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off(B) from their people.’”

Incense

34 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices(C)—gum resin, onycha and galbanum—and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts,

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