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Exodus 30:38

in Exodus 30

Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his people.

KJV

Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

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This verse in Exodus 30

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto,.... A man might make a perfume of the same ingredients, and of the same weight, and exactly like it, but not to burn for his own delight and pleasure; but if he made it and sold it to the congregation, as Jarchi observes, he was not guilty; but if it was for his own private use and pleasure, then he shall even be cut off from his people; See Gill on Exo 30:33.

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 Nineteenth Century1 voice

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.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • אִ֛ישׁanyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • יַעֲשֶׂ֥הhe will make

    yaasehH6213 →2628 times

  • כָמ֖וֹהָlike it

    khamohaH3644 →143 times

  • לְהָרִ֣יחַto smell

    lehariachH7306 →

  • בָּ֑הּ<in> <the> it

    bah

  • וְנִכְרַ֖תand he will be cut off

    venikhratH3772 →288 times

  • מֵעַמָּֽיו׃ סfrom kinspeople<s> his

    meamavH5971 →1873 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 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

    Exodus 30:33

    Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”

    it leads to

    • Genesis 17:14

      But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

    • Exodus 12:15

      For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be…

    • Leviticus 23:29

      If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.

    • Luke 12:1–2

      In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is…

    • Numbers 9:13

      But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the…

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 (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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