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Exodus 30:37

in Exodus 30

You are never to use this formula to make incense for yourselves; you shall regard it as holy to the LORD.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves: it shall be unto thee holy for Jehovah.

KJV

And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.

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This verse in Exodus 30

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This incense was placed within the sanctuary, to be at hand when the priest required to burn on the altar. The art of compounding unguents and perfumes was well known in Egypt, where sweet-scented spices were extensively used not only in common life, but in the ritual of the temples.

This site's exposition

You are never to use this formula to make incense for yourselves

on Exodus 30:37-38

The incense ends with the fence set around the oil: no one may make it “to enjoy its fragrance”. What is withheld is private use, the line the chapter has drawn since it forbade unauthorized incense at verse 9.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And as for the perfume which thou shalt make,.... As above directed: ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof; that is, for their own use, for the scenting of their rooms, or to snuff up, or smell to, as in the next verse: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord; separated entirely for his service, to be burned upon his altar, and to be no otherwise used.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהַקְּטֹ֙רֶת֙and the incense

    vehaketoretH7004 →60 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֔הyou will make

    taasehH6213 →2628 times

  • בְּמַ֨תְכֻּנְתָּ֔הּin proportion[s] its

    bematkuntahH4971 →5 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תַעֲשׂ֖וּyou must make

    taasuH6213 →2628 times

  • לָכֶ֑םfor <the> yourselves

    lakhem

  • קֹ֛דֶשׁa holy thing

    kodeshH6944 →469 times

  • תִּהְיֶ֥הit will be

    tihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • לְךָ֖to <the> you

    lekha

  • לַיהוָֽה׃to Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 2:3

    The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 10:12–13

      And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the offerings made by fire to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the…

    • Leviticus 21:22

      He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,

    • Numbers 18:9

      A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt…

    • Leviticus 6:16–17

      Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.

    • Leviticus 7:9

      Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it,

  • Through

    Exodus 29:37

    For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 40:10

      Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.

    • Matthew 23:19

      You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?

    • Daniel 9:24

      Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up…

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 30 →

This page draws on Chuck Missler, Learn the Bible in 24 Hours; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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