30And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.
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Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, …
And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy: …
Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-34)We have here a further account of the good posture which the affairs of religion were put into immediately upon the return of the people out of Babylon. They had smarted for their former neglect of ordinances and under the late want of ordinances. Both these considerations made them very zealous and forward in setting up the worship of God among them; so they began their worship of God at the righ…
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