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Exodus 30:34

Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense. There shall be an equal weight of each.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense. There shall be an equal weight of each.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight.

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to Exodus 30:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Exodus 37:29 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
  • Exodus 25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
  • Exodus 30:23 “Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
  • Leviticus 2:15 You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering.
  • Leviticus 2:1 “ ‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
  • Leviticus 5:11 “ ‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
  • Leviticus 24:7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
  • Nehemiah 13:5 had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests.
  • Song of Solomon 3:6 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
  • Matthew 2:11 They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
  • 1 Chronicles 9:29-30 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices. Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.

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Explain this verse (18 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain In Hebrew, Sheheleth: which is a sweet kind of…

In Hebrew, Sheheleth: which is a sweet kind of gum and shineth as the nail.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Stacte, and onycha, and galbanum: the Jews themselves are…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Lord said unto Moses,.... In a continued…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The incense which was burned upon the golden altar…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 34. Take unto thee sweet spices] The holy…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 30:34. The incense which was burned upon the…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Exo 37:29. The incense, like the anointing oil, consisted…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Onycha. An aromatic root, shining like "the nail," or…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain COMPOUNDING OF INCENSE, Exo_30:34-38.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 34. sweet spices] In the Heb. one word, sammim…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (34) Take unto thee sweet spices.—Rather, Take unto thee…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 34-38. THE HOLY INCENSE. It remained to give…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Sweet spices.
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Exo_30:34-38
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Frankincense is not to be confounded with incense (to…
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain The Holy Incense
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