Exodus 30:35

35 and make it into a compound of incense, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

Exodus 30:35 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 30:35

And thou shalt make it a perfume
By mixing the above spices together:

a confection after the art of the apothecary;
in the manner they beat, compound, and mix several ingredients together:

tempered together;
or "salted" ^F12, with salt of Sodom, as Aben Ezra interprets it; and Maimonides ^F13 says, there was a fourth part of a kab of salt of Sodom put into it: and whether this incense or perfume respects the intercession of Christ or the prayers of his people, they are both savoury and acceptable to God, the latter on account of the former; in all sacrifices salt was used, and every spiritual sacrifice of ours should be seasoned with grace:

pure and holy;
such should be the prayers of the saints, and such most certainly is the mediation of Christ, which is his much incense.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 (xlmm) "salitum", Montanus, Drusius. Junius & Tremellius, & Piscator.
F13 Cele Hamikdash, c. 2. sect. 3.

Exodus 30:35 In-Context

33 Anyone who compounds perfume like it and who puts it on a stranger will be cut off from his people.'"

34 And Yahweh said to Moses, "Take for yourself fragrant perfumes--stacte resin and onycha and galbanum--fragrant perfumes and pure frankincense, {an equal part of each},

35 and make it into a compound of incense, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

36 And you will grind part of it to powder, and you will put part of it before the testimony in the tent of assembly where I will meet with you; it will be a most holy thing to you.

37 And the incense that you will make with its measurements you will not make for yourselves; it will be holy to you for Yahweh.