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Exodus 30:29

in Exodus 30

You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

This verse in Exodus 30

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Use this oil to anoint the Tent of Meeting

on Exodus 30:26-29

The oil goes on the tent and every vessel before it goes on any man, so the place is set apart ahead of its priesthood. The result is graded, “so that they will be most holy,” and “Whatever touches them shall be holy”.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Take thou also . . . principal spices, &c.--Oil is frequently mentioned in Scripture as an emblem of sanctification, and anointing with it a means of designating objects as well as persons to the service of God.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וְקִדַּשְׁתָּ֣and you will consecrate

    vekidashtaH6942 →171 times

  • אֹתָ֔ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • וְהָי֖וּand they will be

    vehayuH1961 →3559 times

  • קֹ֣דֶשׁholiness of

    kodeshH6944 →469 times

  • קָֽדָשִׁ֑יםholiness<es>

    kadashimH6944 →469 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ<the> [thing which] touches

    hanogea'H5060 →150 times

  • בָּהֶ֖ם<in> <the> them

    bahem

  • יִקְדָּֽשׁ׃it will be holy

    yikdashH6942 →171 times

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

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

    Matthew 23:17

    You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?

    it leads to

    • Matthew 23:19

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

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 16:38–39

      As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become…

  • Through

    Matthew 23:19

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

    it leads to

    • 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.

  • 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.

  • Through

    Leviticus 6:18

    Any male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. This is a permanent portion from the offerings made by fire to the LORD for the generations to come. Anything that touches them will…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 18:10

      You are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy.

    • Leviticus 6:29

      Any male among the priests may eat it; it is most holy.

    • 1 Peter 1:16

      for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

    • 1 Peter 2:9

      But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

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.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.