You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
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You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
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And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
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And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
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Passages linked to Exodus 30:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 29:37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
- Leviticus 6:18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’ ”
- Matthew 23:19 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
- Matthew 23:17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they…
Exo 30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Ver. 29. Whatsoever toucheth them.] So are all those anointed holy, that by a lively faith touch the Lord Christ.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be…
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy,.... By anointing them, and so be set apart for sacred uses only; as by the grace of the Holy Spirit, the people of God, the vessels of mercy, are really sanctified, and made meet for the master's use; and therefore it is called the sanctification of the Spirit, which is true holiness, in opposition to typical or ceremonial holiness, here intended; and if this holy anointing oil made those things most holy that were anointed with it, how much more must the grace of the Spirit those who partake of it; and though it is at present imperfect, it will be perfected, and become complete holiness, without which no man can see the Lord:
whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy; as is said of the most holy altar; see Gill on Exo 29:37. The Targum of Jonathan interprets it of persons that approach these holy places, and things so anointed and sanctified, paraphrasing the words thus;"whosoever cometh unto them of the priests shall be holy, but of the rest of the tribes shall be burnt with flaming fire before the Lord.''
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sanctified. But if he ought not to touch it,…
Sanctified. But if he ought not to touch it, he shall be defiled the more: (Deuteronomy xxii. 9) a double effect, which we perceive in the Christian sacraments. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 29. The effect of the anointing is to sanctify…
29. The effect of the anointing is to sanctify the objects to which the process is applied (cf. Exo_29:36).
most holy] See on Exo_29:37.
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shall become holy] i.e. be forfeited to the sanctuary, or, if a person (marg.), be given over to the Deity, that He may deal with him as He pleases. See further on Exo_29:37.
Anointing1[213], in a religious sense, is in the OT. a symbolical act, denoting (1) the divine appointment, or consecration, of a person for a particular purpose, esp. a king (1Sa_10:1 and often), the high priest (Exo_29:7), later also the ordinary priests (see on v. 30), and, at least once, a prophet, 1Ki_Exo_19:16 b (cf., in a fig. sense, Isa_61:1); it is followed by, and is sometimes a figure of, the outpouring of the Spirit upon the person anointed (1Sa_10:6, cf. v. 1, Exo_16:13; Isa_61:1 (Luk_4:18), Act_4:27; Act_10:38, 2Co_1:21, 1Jn_2:20; 1Jn_2:27): (2) the consecration of a thing, viz. a sacred stone, Gen_31:13 (see Exo_28:18), Exo_35:14 (so among the Greeks; see the writer’s Genesis, p. 267), the Tabernacle and its appurtenances (see on vv. 26–28), a future Altar of burnt-offering, Dan_9:24 (see the note in the Camb. Bible). The practice of anointing is widely diffused in the world: the unguent—originally fat, regarded in primitive thought as an important seat of life—was regarded, it seems, at least primitively, as a vehicle transferring to the person or object anointed a Divine life or potency. See art. Anointing (Crawley and Jastrow) in Hastings’ Encycl. of Rel. and Ethics, i. (1908), 549–557, esp. 550, 554, 556 (cf. EB. s.v. i. 175); and for the anointing of priests, p. 552b, and of temples and other sacred objects, p. 553 f.
[213] Heb. mâshaḥ (whence ‘Messiaḥ’), to be carefully distinguished from anointing the head or person for the toilet (Heb. sûk) Deu_28:40, 2Sa_14:2 al. In NT. χρίω (fig., never lit.) corresponds to the former, and ἀλείφω (e.g. Mat_6:17) to the latter.
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set them apart
This refers to the items listed in Exodus 30:26-28.
throughout your people's generations
"all the generations of your descendants." See how you translated this in Exodus 12:14.
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set apart
anoint
Aaron
servant
priest
Israel
oil
Yahweh
people group
generation
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