Exodus 30:34 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 30:34

The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,

BSB

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ASV

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight;

KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Take unto thee sweet spices - The holy perfume was compounded of the following ingredients: Stacte - נטף nataph, supposed to be the same with what was afterwards called the balm of Jericho. Stacte is the gum which spontaneously flows from the tree which produces myrrh. See Clarke’s note on Exo 30:23. Onycha - שחלת shecheleth, allowed by the best critics to be the unguis odoriferans described by Rumph, which is the external crust of the shell-fish purpura or murex, and is the basis of the principal perfumes made in the East Indies.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּאמֶר֩	vai.yo.Mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוָ֨ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
מֹשֶׁ֜ה	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
קַח־	kach-	take	H3947 →
לְךָ֣	le.Kha	for <the> yourself
סַמִּ֗ים	sa.Mim	spices	H5561 →
נָטָ֤ף׀	na.Taf	stacte	H5198 →
וּשְׁחֵ֙לֶת֙	u.she.Che.let	and onycha	H7827 →
וְחֶלְבְּנָ֔ה	ve.chel.be.Nah	and galbanum	H2464 →
סַמִּ֖ים	sa.Mim	spices	H5561 →
וּלְבֹנָ֣ה	u.le.vo.Nah	and frankincense	H3828 →
זַכָּ֑ה	za.Kah	pure	H2134 →
בַּ֥ד	bad	a part	H905 →
בְּבַ֖ד	be.Vad	in a part	H905 →
יִהְיֶֽה׃	yih.Yeh	it will be	H1961 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 25:6
olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
leads to
- Exodus 27:20
  And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
Through
Song of Solomon 3:6
Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
leads to
- Song of Solomon 8:5
  Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
- Revelation 12:14
  But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times,…
- Song of Solomon 1:13
  My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
Through
Exodus 30:23
“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
leads to
- Song of Solomon 4:14
  with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
- Ezekiel 27:19
  and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.
- Ezekiel 27:22
  The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones.
Through
Exodus 37:29
He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
leads to
- Exodus 30:23–38
  “Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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