Exodus 30:29

King James Version

And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

Lexham English Bible
And you will consecrate them, and they will be most holy things; anyone who touches them will be holy.

New Century Version
You will prepare all these things for service to God, and they will be very holy. Anything that touches these things must be holy.

New English Translation
So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.

Amplified Bible
"You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them must be holy (set apart for God).

New American Standard Bible
"You shall also consecrate them, so that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So thou shalt sanctifie them, & they shalbe most holy: all that shal touch them, shalbe holy.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall also set them apart as holy, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.

Contemporary English Version
By dedicating them in this way, you will make them so holy that anyone who even touches them will become holy.

Complete Jewish Bible
You are to consecrate them — they will be especially holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.

Darby Translation
And thou shalt hallow them, that they may be most holy: whatever toucheth them shall be holy.

Easy-to-Read Version
You will make all these things holy. They will be very special to the Lord. Anything that touches these things will also become holy.

English Standard Version
You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will become holy.

George Lamsa Translation
And you shall sanctify them, and they shall become most holy; whatsoever touches them shall be holy.

Good News Translation
Dedicate these things in this way, and they will be completely holy, and anyone or anything that touches them will be harmed by the power of its holiness.

Christian Standard Bible®
Consecrate them and they will be especially holy. Whatever touches them will be consecrated.

Literal Translation
And you shall sanctify them, and they shall become most holy; everything touching them shall become holy.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and thus shalt thou consecrate them, that they maye be most holy: for who so wil touch the, must be consecrated.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

Bible in Basic English
And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt sanctifie them, that they may be most holye: whatsoeuer toucheth them, shalbe sanctified.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt sanctifie them, that they may bee most holy: whatsoeuer toucheth them, shall be holy.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt sanctify them, and they shall be most holy: every one that touches them shall be hallowed.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

Berean Standard Bible
You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them will be holy.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt halewe alle thingis, and tho schulen be the hooli of holi thingis; he that schal touche tho, schal be halewid.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy;

Update Bible Version
And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatever touches them shall be holy.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatever toucheth them shall be holy.

World English Bible
You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

New King James Version
You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them must be holy. Numbers 4:15 and Haggai 2:11-13">[fn]

New Living Translation
Consecrate them to make them absolutely holy. After this, whatever touches them will also become holy.

New Life Bible
Set them apart so they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will be holy.

New Revised Standard
you shall consecrate them, so that they may be most holy; whatever touches them will become holy.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shalt thou hallow them, and they shall be most holy, - whosoever toucheth them, shall be holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most holy: he that shall touch them shall be sanctified.

Revised Standard Version
you shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them will become holy.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall also consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.

Contextual Overview

²² Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ²³ 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, ²⁴ And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: ²⁵ And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil. ²⁶ And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, ²⁷ And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, ²⁸ And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. ²⁹ And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy. ³⁰ And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office. ³¹ And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whatsoever: Exodus 29:37, Leviticus 6:18, Matthew 23:17, Matthew 23:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:36 - anoint it Leviticus 6:27 - touch Ezekiel 44:19 - sanctify

Cross-References

Genesis 30:5
And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:8
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

Genesis 30:10
And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:22
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

Genesis 30:25
And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

Genesis 30:38
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

Genesis 30:40
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

Genesis 31:6
And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

Matthew 24:45
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, :-. 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.''

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.