Exodus 30:23

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“Take choice spices: twelve and a half pounds of free-flowing myrrh, half that– about six and a quarter pounds– of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane,

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 4:14 : 14 nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.
  • Ezek 27:19 : 19 and casks of wine from Izal they exchanged for your products. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were among your merchandise.
  • Ezek 27:22 : 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 I take no delight when they offer up to me frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet-smelling cane imported from a faraway land. I cannot accept the burnt offerings they bring me. I get no pleasure from the sacrifices they offer to me.’
  • Exod 37:29 : 29 He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
  • Ps 45:8 : 8 All your garments are perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cassia. From the luxurious palaces comes the music of stringed instruments that makes you happy.
  • Prov 7:17 : 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
  • Song 1:3 : 3 The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you!
  • Song 1:13 : 13 My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh spending the night between my breasts.

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  • Exod 30:24-27
    4 verses
    88%

    24and twelve and a half pounds of cassia, all weighed according to the sanctuary shekel, and four quarts of olive oil.

    25You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.

    26“With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony,

    27the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,

  • Exod 30:33-37
    5 verses
    83%

    33Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people.’”

    34The LORD said to Moses:“Take spices, gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense of equal amounts

    35and make it into an incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer. It is to be finely ground, and pure and sacred.

    36You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.

    37And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the LORD.

  • Song 4:14
    79%

    14nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

  • Exod 30:22
    77%

    22Oil and Incense The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 25:6
    77%

    6oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for fragrant incense,

  • Exod 35:28
    75%

    28and spices and olive oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

  • Exod 37:29
    74%

    29He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

  • Exod 35:8
    74%

    8olive oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

  • Num 7:32
    73%

    32one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Num 7:14
    72%

    14one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Num 7:38
    72%

    38one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Num 7:26
    72%

    26one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Num 7:50
    72%

    50one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Num 7:20
    72%

    20one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Num 7:56
    72%

    56one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Num 7:44
    71%

    44one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Prov 7:17
    71%

    17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

  • Num 7:80
    71%

    80one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Num 7:62
    71%

    62one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Num 7:74
    71%

    74one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Exod 31:11
    70%

    11the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the Holy Place. They will make all these things just as I have commanded you.”

  • Num 7:68
    70%

    68one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Exod 35:15
    69%

    15and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle;

  • 1 Chr 9:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices.

    30(But some of the priests mixed the spices.)

  • Ps 45:8
    68%

    8All your garments are perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cassia. From the luxurious palaces comes the music of stringed instruments that makes you happy.

  • Num 16:17
    68%

    17And each of you take his censer, put incense in it, and then each of you present his censer before the LORD: 250 censers, along with you, and Aaron– each of you with his censer.”

  • Rev 18:13
    68%

    13cinnamon, spice, incense, perfumed ointment, frankincense, wine, olive oil and costly flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and four-wheeled carriages, slaves and human lives.

  • Exod 39:38
    67%

    38and the gold altar, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; and the curtain for the entrance to the tent;

  • Gen 43:11
    67%

    11Then their father Israel said to them,“If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man– a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

  • 1 Chr 28:15
    67%

    15for the gold lampstands and their gold lamps, including the weight of each lampstand and its lamps, for the silver lampstands, including the weight of each lampstand and its lamps, according to the prescribed use of each lampstand,

  • Lev 6:15
    67%

    15and the priest must take up with his hand some of the choice wheat flour of the grain offering and some of its olive oil, and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he must offer its memorial portion up in smoke on the altar as a soothing aroma to the LORD.

  • Exod 25:31
    67%

    31The Lampstand“You are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece.

  • Lev 2:2
    67%

    2Then he must bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and the priest must scoop out from there a handful of its choice wheat flour and some of its olive oil in addition to all of its frankincense, and the priest must offer its memorial portion up in smoke on the altar– it is a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.

  • Exod 38:24
    67%

    24All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary(namely, the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

  • Exod 31:8
    67%

    8the table with its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

  • Lev 2:15
    67%

    15And you must put olive oil on it and set frankincense on it– it is a grain offering.

  • 2 Chr 9:9
    66%

    9She gave the king 120 talents of gold and a very large quantity of spices and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched.

  • Num 28:5
    66%

    5with one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour as a grain offering mixed with one quarter of a hin of pressed olive oil.

  • Exod 30:1
    66%

    1The Altar of Incense“You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.

  • Lev 23:13
    66%

    13along with its grain offering, two tenths of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil, as a gift to the LORD, a soothing aroma, and its drink offering, one fourth of a hin of wine.

  • 1 Kgs 10:10
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    10She gave the king 120 talents of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched.