Exodus 30:38
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New International Version (©2011)
Whoever makes incense like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from their people."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Anyone who makes incense like this for personal use will be cut off from the community."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Whoever shall make any like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Anyone who makes something like it to smell its fragrance must be cut off from his people."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Anyone who makes anything like it to use it as perfume is to be cut off from his people."

NET Bible (©2006)
Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, will be cut off from his people."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Whoever prepares anything like it for his own enjoyment must be excluded from his people."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Whosoever shall make any like that, to smell it, shall even be cut off from his people.

American King James Version
Whoever shall make like to that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

American Standard Version
Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof, he shall perish out of his people.

Darby Bible Translation
Whoever maketh like unto it, to smell it, shall be cut off from his peoples.

English Revised Version
Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, he shall be cut off from his people.

Webster's Bible Translation
Whoever shall make the like to that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

World English Bible
Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."

Young's Literal Translation
a man who maketh any like it -- to be refreshed by it -- hath even been cut off from his people.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:22-38 Directions are here given for making the holy anointing oil, and the incense to be used in the service of the tabernacle. To show the excellency of holiness, there was this spiced oil in the tabernacle, which was grateful to the sight and to the smell. Christ's name is as ointment poured forth, So 1:3, and the good name of Christians is like precious ointment, Ec 7:1. The incense burned upon the golden altar was prepared of sweet spices. When it was used, it was to be beaten very small; thus it pleased the Lord to bruise the Redeemer, when he offered himself for a sacrifice of a sweet-smelling savour. The like should not be made for any common use. Thus God would keep in the people's minds reverence for his own services, and teach us not to profane or abuse any thing whereby God makes himself known. It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, and to make sport with his word and ordinances. It is most dangerous and fatal to use professions of the gospel of Christ to forward wordly interests.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto,.... A man might make a perfume of the same ingredients, and of the same weight, and exactly like it, but not to burn for his own delight and pleasure; but if he made it and sold it to the congregation, as Jarchi observes, he was not guilty; but if it was for his own private use and pleasure, then he

shall even be cut off from his people; See Gill on Exodus 30:33.

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The Incense
…36And you shall beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with you: it shall be to you most holy. 37And as for the perfume which you shall make, you shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be to you holy for the LORD. 38Whoever shall make like to that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

Exodus 30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from their people.'"
Exodus 31:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,