Exodus 35:28

28 They also brought spices and olive oil for the light, the anointing oil, and the fragrant 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 used their skills to spin the goat hair into yarn.

27 The leaders brought onyx stones and the special gemstones to be set in the ephod and the priest’s chestpiece.

28 They also brought spices and olive oil for the light, the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense.

29 So the people of Israel—every man and woman who was eager to help in the work the LORD had given them through Moses—brought their gifts and gave them freely to the LORD .

30 Then Moses told the people of Israel, “The LORD has specifically chosen Bezalel son of Uri, grandson of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.