You shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
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You shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
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And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
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And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Exodus 30:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 30:25 You shall make it into a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
- Leviticus 2:13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
- Proverbs 27:9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
- Song of Solomon 1:3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
- 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?
- John 12:3 Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Tempered together, Heb. salted; either,
Tempered together, Heb. salted; either,
1. Properly, for salt was to be offered with all offerings, Lev 2:13. And the Hebrew doctors tell us that six egg-shells full of salt were used. Or,
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2. Metaphorically, well mixed together, as salt was with things either offered to God, or eaten by man.
Pure, of the best of each kind of drugs, the most perfect and uncorrupted.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt make it a perfume,.... By mixing…
And thou shalt make it a perfume,.... By mixing the above spices together:
a confection after the art of the apothecary; in the manner they beat, compound, and mix several ingredients together:
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tempered together; or "salted" (l), with salt of Sodom, as Aben Ezra interprets it; and Maimonides (m) says, there was a fourth part of a kab of salt of Sodom put into it: and whether this incense or perfume respects the intercession of Christ or the prayers of his people, they are both savoury and acceptable to God, the latter on account of the former; in all sacrifices salt was used, and every spiritual sacrifice of ours should be seasoned with grace:
pure and holy; such should be the prayers of the saints, and such most certainly is the mediation of Christ, which is his much incense.
(l) "salitum", Montanus, Drusius. Junius & Tremellius, & Piscator. (m) Cele Hamikdash, c. 2. sect. 3.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Together. Hebrew literally, "salted," (Chaldean) as salt was to…
Together. Hebrew literally, "salted," (Chaldean) as salt was to accompany all the sacrifices, Leviticus ii. 13. But it was not, perhaps, to be mixed with this perfume, no more than with the wine of libations. The word may signify "a thing used in embalming, pure and holy."
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).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 35. Art of the apothecary — See on Exo_30:25.
35. Art of the apothecary — See on Exo_30:25.
Tempered together — Rather, seasoned with salt, after the manner of meat offerings. See on Lev_2:13.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 35. a perfume, the work of the perfumer] as…
35. a perfume, the work of the perfumer] as v. 25.
seasoned with salt] salted (cf. Sir_49:1 Heb.). In spite of the Versions (‘mixed’; and so RVm. = AV. tempered together [without ‘with salt’]), this is the only rend. which philology permits (so Ges. Di. Bä. &c.). ‘Seasoned with salt’ is, however, a doubtful paraphrase; for the incense was not a food. Salt, from its purifying and antiseptic properties, may have been added to the other ingredients, as symbolical of what was wholesome and sound; it has also been supposed (J. D. Michaelis, as cited by Di. and Bä.) that it may have been used, as causing the incense to kindle more rapidly, for the purpose of diffusing a wider cloud of smoke. The incense used in the Herodian temple is stated by Jos. (B.J. v. 5. 5) and the Talm, to have consisted of thirteen ingredients: see EB. ii. 2167.
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pure] a different word from the ‘pure’ of v. 34, and meaning free from adulteration, or other impurities.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (35) A confection after the art of the apothecary.—See…
(35) A confection after the art of the apothecary.—See Note on Exo_30:25. Bezaleel’s art was called in, both for the composition of the holy oil and of the holy incense (Exo_37:29).
Tempered together.—So the LXX., the Vulg., and the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan. But most moderns render “salted,” or “mixed with salt.” (See Buxtorf, Gesenius, Lee, Rosenmüller, De Wette, Kalisch, Keil, &c.). The word used is capable of either meaning.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain A confection after the art of the apothecary. Like…
A confection after the art of the apothecary. Like the holy oil, the incense was to be artistically compounded by one accustomed to deal with such ingredients. It was actually, in the first instance, the work of Bezaleel. (Exo_27:2-9) Tempered together. This translation is supported by the authority of the Septuagint and the Vulgate, and is defended by Canon Cook. But the mass of modern critics is in favour of the translation "salted," or "with salt." (So Buxtorf, Gesenius, De Wette, Kalisch, Keil, etc.) If, nobel suggests "comminuted," identifying malakh with marakh. The point is not one of much importance.
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