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Exodus 30:22

Once again, The LORD said to Moses,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anointing Oil;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Ointments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Anointing;   Spices;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fruit;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Hananiah;   High Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cosmetics;   Messiah;   Ointment;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Tabernacle;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ointment, the Holy;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Myrrh;   Oil;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High priest;   Priest;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Perfumes;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Anoint;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Oil, Anointing;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Priestly Code;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moreover the LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
King James Version
Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New Century Version
Then the Lord said to Moses,
New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Amplified Bible
Moreover, the LORD said to Moses,
New American Standard Bible
Moreover, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Moreover, Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord said to Moses:
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said to Moshe,
Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord said to Moses,
English Standard Version
The Lord said to Moses,
George Lamsa Translation
Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord said to Moses,
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye LORDE spake vnto Moses, and sayde:
American Standard Version
Moreover Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Moreover the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
King James Version (1611)
Moreouer the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
English Revised Version
Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Update Bible Version
Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
World English Bible
Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New King James Version
Exodus 37:29">[xr] Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
New Living Translation
Then the Lord said to Moses,
New Life Bible
The Lord said to Moses,
New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying -
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses,
Revised Standard Version
Moreover, the LORD said to Moses,
THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses: "Take the best spices: twelve and a half pounds of liquid myrrh; half that much, six and a quarter pounds, of fragrant cinnamon; six and a quarter pounds of fragrant cane; twelve and a half pounds of cassia—using the standard Sanctuary weight for all of them—and a gallon of olive oil. Make these into a holy anointing oil, a perfumer's skillful blend.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moreover, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

22Once again, The LORD said to Moses,23"Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane, 24500 shekels of cassia-all according to the sanctuary shekel-and a hin of olive oil. 25Prepare from these a holy anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a holy anointing oil. 26Use this oil to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the Ark of the Testimony, 27the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense, 28the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand. 29You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them will be holy. 30Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them to serve Me as priests. 31And you are to tell the Israelites, 'This will be My sacred anointing oil for the generations to come.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 35:15 - the incense

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And He sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
Genesis 25:21
Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. "Give me children, or I will die!" she said to Jacob.
Genesis 30:2
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?"
Genesis 30:19
Again Leah conceived and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
Genesis 30:20
"God has given me a good gift," she said. "This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons." And she named him Zebulun.
Psalms 105:42
For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
Psalms 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
Psalms 127:3
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Some little time afterwards, while he was yet with him on the mount:

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 37:29.

Exodus 30:23

Principal spices - i. e. the best spices.

Pure myrrh - Is a gum which comes from the stem of a low, thorny, ragged tree, that grows in Arabia Felix and Eastern Africa, called by botanists Balsamodendron myrrha. The word here rendered pure, is literally, “freely flowing”, an epithet which is explained by the fact that the best myrrh is said to exude spontaneously from the bark, while that of inferior quality oozes out in greater quantity from incisions made in the bark.

Five hundred shekels - Probably rather more than 15 1/4 lbs. See Exodus 38:24.

Cinnamon - is obtained from a tree allied to the laurel that grows in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and other islands of the Indian Ocean, known in Botany as the Cinnamomum zeylanicum. It is the inner rind of the tree dried in the sun. It was imported from India in very early times by the people of Ophir, and brought with other spices from the south part of Arabia by the trading caravans that visited Egypt and Syria. The mention of these spices in Exodus may be taken as the earliest notice we have connected with commerce with the remote East.

Two hundred and fifty shekels - about 7 lbs. 14 oz.

Sweet calamus - The fragrant cane (or rush) was probably what is now known in India as the Lemon Grass.

Exodus 30:24

Cassia - is the inner bark of an Indian tree (Cinnamomum cassia), which differs from that which produces cinnamon in the shape of its leaves and some other particulars. It was probably in ancient times, as it is at present, by far less costly than cinnamon, and it may have been on this account that it was used in double quantity.

An hin - Probably about six pints. See Leviticus 19:36.

Exodus 30:25

An oil of holy ointment - Rather, a holy anointing oil.

After the art of the apothecary - According to Jewish tradition, the essences of the spices were first extracted, and then mixed with the oil. The preparation of the anointing oil, as well as of the incense, was entrusted to Bezaleel Exodus 37:29, and the care of preserving it to Eleazar, the son of Aaron Numbers 4:16. In a later age, it was prepared by the sons of the priests 1 Chronicles 9:30.

Exodus 30:32

Upon man’s flesh - i. e. on the persons of those who were not priests who might employ it for such anointing as was usual on festive occasions (Psalms 104:15; Proverbs 27:9; Matthew 6:17, etc.).

Exodus 30:33

A stranger - See Exodus 29:33.

Cut off from his people - See Exodus 31:14.


 
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