Éxodo 30:24

24 y de casia quinientos, al peso del santuario, y de aceite de olivas un hin;

Éxodo 30:24 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 30:24

And of cassia five hundred [shekels]
Or two hundred and fifty ounces:

after the shekel of the sanctuary;
according to the standard weight kept there. This "cassia" was not the "cassia solutiva", which is of a purgative nature, and now in use in physic, but the "cassia odorata", or the sweet smelling "cassia": which, Pancirollus ^F19 says, some take to be the nard, out of which a most sweet oil is pressed; and Servius

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 says, that cassia is an herb of a most sweet smell. Pliny ^F21 speaks of it along with cinnamon; and Galen says, when cinnamon was wanting, it was usual to put in its stead a double quantity of cassia {w}; Leo Africanus speaks of trees in Africa bearing cassia, and which chiefly grew in Egypt ^F24;

and of oil olive an hin;
containing twelve logs: according to Godwin ^F25, it was of our measure three quarts; but, as Bishop Cumberland has more exactly calculated it, it held a wine gallon, a quart, and a little more: this was the purest and best of oil, and most fit and proper to be a part of this holy anointing oil.

F19 Ut supra, (Rer. Memorab. sive Deperd. par. 1.) tit. 11. p. 30.
F20 In Virgil. Bucol. Eclog. 2.
F21 Ut supra, (Nat. Hist. l. 12.) c. 19.
F23 Apud Dalechamp in Plin. ib.
F24 Descriptio Africae, l. 9. p. 752.
F25 Moses & Aaron, l. 6. c. 9.

Éxodo 30:24 In-Context

22 Habló más el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

23 Y tú has de tomar de las principales especias; de mirra excelente quinientos siclos , y de canela aromática la mitad, esto es, doscientos cincuenta, y de cálamo aromático doscientos cincuenta,

24 y de casia quinientos, al peso del santuario, y de aceite de olivas un hin;

25 y harás de ello el aceite de la santa unción, superior ungüento, obra de perfumador, el cual será el aceite de la santa unción.

26 Con él ungirás el tabernáculo del testimonio, y el arca del testimonio,