Exodus 35:28

28 They also brought the spices and the olive oil for the lamps, the anointing oil, and the sweet-smelling incense.

Exodus 35:28 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 35:28

And spice and oil
Such excellent spices and precious oil, pure oil olive, as the common people had not, and which they brought out of Egypt; the one was

for the light:
for the light of the candlestick only; the oil, and other spices,

were for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense;
the spices for the former were pure myrrh, sweet cinnamon, sweet calamus and cassia; and for the latter, stacte, onycha, galbanum, with pure frankincense.

Exodus 35:28 In-Context

26 All the women who were willing and had the skill spun the goats' hair.

27 The leaders brought onyx stones and other precious stones to be set in the [chief priest's] ephod and breastplate.

28 They also brought the spices and the olive oil for the lamps, the anointing oil, and the sweet-smelling incense.

29 Every Israelite man and woman who was willing brought all these items to the LORD as a freewill offering. They brought these items to be used to make everything the LORD had commanded through Moses.

30 Then Moses said to the Israelites, "The LORD has chosen Bezalel, son of Uri and grandson of Hur, from the tribe of Judah.