Exodus 30:35 and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.

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New International Version
and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.

English Standard Version
and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

New American Standard Bible
"With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Prepare expertly blended incense from these; it is to be seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

International Standard Version
You are to make it into a fragrant incense, expertly blended, pure, and holy.

American Standard Version
and thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification.

Darby Bible Translation
And thou shalt make it into incense, a perfume, after the work of the perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast made it a perfume, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, holy;

Cross References

Exodus 30:25
And you shall make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the are of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.

Exodus 30:34
And the LORD said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

Exodus 30:36
And 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.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

34-38. the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices—These were:

stacte—the finest myrrh;

onycha—supposed to be an odoriferous shell;

galbanum—a gum resin from an umbelliferous plant.

frankincense—a dry, resinous, aromatic gum, of a yellow color, which comes from a tree in Arabia, and is obtained by incision of the bark. This incense was placed within the sanctuary, to be at hand when the priest required to burn on the altar. The art of compounding unguents and perfumes was well known in Egypt, where sweet-scented spices were extensively used not only in common life, but in the ritual of the temples. Most of the ingredients here mentioned have been found on minute examination of mummies and other Egyptian relics; and the Israelites, therefore, would have the best opportunities of acquiring in that country the skill in pounding and mixing them which they were called to exercise in the service of the tabernacle. But the recipe for the incense as well as for the oil in the tabernacle, though it receives illustration from the customs of Egypt, was peculiar, and being prescribed by divine authority, was to be applied to no common or inferior purpose.