Exodus 30:32-38

32 'It shall not be poured on anyone's body, nor shall you make any like it in the same proportions; ¹it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

33 '²Whoever * shall mix any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman ³shall be cut off from his people.' "

The Incense

34 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.

35 "With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.

36 "You shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting ⁴where * I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.

37 "The incense which you shall make, ⁵you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.

38 "⁶Whoever * shall make any like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people."

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Exodus 30:32-38 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 30

This chapter treats of the altar of incense, its form and use, Ex 30:1-10 of the ransom of the Israelites, with the half shekel when numbered, Ex 30:11-16 of the laver for the priests to wash their hands and feet at before service, Ex 30:17-21 of the anointing oil, the ingredients of it, and what was to be done with it, Ex 30:22-33, and of the perfume, the composition and use of it, Ex 30:34-38.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 6

1. Exodus 30:25, 37
2. Exodus 30:38
3. Genesis 17:14; Exodus 12:15; Leviticus 7:20
4. Exodus 29:42
5. Exodus 30:32
6. Exodus 30:33

Footnotes 7

[a]. Lit "the flesh of man"
[b]. Lit "its proportion"
[c]. Lit "stranger"
[d]. Lit "even he shall"
[e]. Lit "its proportion"
[f]. Lit "smell of it"
[g]. Lit "even he shall"