Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each. King James Bible And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight: Darby Bible Translation And Jehovah said to Moses, Take fragrant drugs stacte, and onycha, and galbanum fragrant drugs and pure frankincense; in like proportions shall it be. World English Bible Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight; Young's Literal Translation And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Take to thee spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense; they are part for part; Exodus 30:34 Parallel Commentary Barnes' Notes on the BibleExodus 37:29. The incense, like the anointing oil, consisted of four aromatic ingredients. Stacte - supposed to be either the gum of the Storax tree (Styrax officinale) found in Syria and the neighboring countries, or the gum known as Benzoin, or Gum Benjamin, which is an important ingredient in the incense now used in churches and mosques, and is the produce of another storax tree (Styrax benzoin) that grows in Java and Sumatra. Onycha - , a perfume perhaps made from the cap of the strombus, or wing-shell, which abounds in the Red Sea. Galbanum - , a gum of a yellowish brown color, in the form of either grains or masses. It is imported from India, Persia, and Africa; but the plant from which it comes is not yet certainly known. Pure frankincense - This was the most important of the aromatic gums. Like myrrh, it was regarded by itself as a precious perfume Sol 3:6; Matthew 2:11, and it was used unmixed with other substances in some of the rites of the law. The tree from which it is obtained is not found in Arabia, and it was most likely imported from India by the Sabaeans, like Cinnamon, Cassia, and Calamus (see Exodus 30:23). The tree is now known as the Boswellia serrata, or B. thurifera, and grows abundantly in the highlands of India. The frankincense of commerce is a different substance, the resin of the spruce and of some other kinds of fir. Exodus 30:34 Parallel Commentaries Library Ransom for Souls --ii. 'The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel....'--EXODUS xxx. 15. This tax was exacted on numbering the people. It was a very small amount, about fifteen pence, so it was clearly symbolical in its significance. Notice-- I. The broad principle of equality of all souls in the sight of God. Contrast the reign of caste and class in heathendom with the democracy of Judaism and of Christianity. II. The universal sinfulness. Payment of the tax was a confession that … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture How a Private Man must Begin the Morning with Piety. Cross References Exodus 30:33 Whoever shall mix any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.'" Exodus 30:35 "With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy. Exodus 31:11 the anointing oil also, and the fragrant incense for the holy place, they are to make them according to all that I have commanded you." Exodus 35:15 and the altar of incense and its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the doorway at the entrance of the tabernacle; Exodus 37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer. Leviticus 16:12 "He shall take a firepan full of coals of fire from upon the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil. Numbers 4:16 "The responsibility of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light and the fragrant incense and the continual grain offering and the anointing oil-- the responsibility of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings." Jump to Previous Amounts Drugs Equal Fragrant Frankincense Gum Moses Part Pure Resin Spices Sweet Weight WeightsJump to Next Amounts Drugs Equal Fragrant Frankincense Gum Moses Part Pure Resin Spices Sweet Weight WeightsLinks Exodus 30:34 NIVExodus 30:34 NLT Exodus 30:34 ESV Exodus 30:34 NASB Exodus 30:34 KJV Exodus 30:34 Bible Apps Exodus 30:34 Biblia Paralela Exodus 30:34 Chinese Bible Exodus 30:34 French Bible Exodus 30:34 German Bible Exodus 30:34 Commentaries Bible Hub |