Exodus 30:37

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 29:37 : 37 For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.
  • Exod 30:32-33 : 32 It must not be applied to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you. 33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people.’”
  • Lev 2:3 : 3 The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons– it is most holy from the gifts of the LORD.

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  • Exod 30:31-36
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    31And you are to tell the Israelites:‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.

    32It must not be applied to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

    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.

  • Exod 30:38
    84%

    38Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, will be cut off from his people.”

  • Exod 37:29
    81%

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

  • Exod 30:22-27
    6 verses
    81%

    22Oil and Incense The LORD spoke to Moses:

    23“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,

    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 30:7-9
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    80%

    7Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense.

    8When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.

    9You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it.

  • Exod 31:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

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

    12Sabbath Observance The LORD said to Moses,

  • Exod 40:27
    75%

    27and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Lev 24:7
    75%

    7You must put pure frankincense on each row, and it will become a memorial portion for the bread, a gift to the LORD.

  • Exod 30:1
    74%

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

  • Exod 25:6
    74%

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

  • Exod 35:28
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    28and spices and olive oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

  • Lev 2:15-16
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    15And you must put olive oil on it and set frankincense on it– it is a grain offering.

    16Then the priest must offer its memorial portion up in smoke– some of its crushed bits, some of its olive oil, in addition to all of its frankincense– it is a gift to the LORD.

  • Exod 40:9-10
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    73%

    9And take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and sanctify it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy.

    10Then you are to anoint the altar for the burnt offering with all its utensils; you are to sanctify the altar, and it will be the most holy altar.

  • Num 16:40
    73%

    40It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his company– just as the LORD had spoken by the authority of Moses.

  • Exod 34:17
    73%

    17You must not make yourselves molten gods.

  • Exod 35:15
    73%

    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;

  • Lev 2:2
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    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 39:38
    73%

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

  • Exod 35:8
    73%

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

  • Num 4:17
    72%

    17Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Lev 6:15
    72%

    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.

  • Lev 2:12
    72%

    12You can present them to the LORD as an offering of first fruit, but they must not go up to the altar for a soothing aroma.

  • Exod 29:37
    72%

    37For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.

  • Exod 30:29
    72%

    29So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.

  • Exod 28:36
    72%

    36“You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it the way a seal is engraved:“Holiness to the LORD.”

  • Lev 16:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12and take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD and a full double handful of finely ground fragrant incense, and bring them inside the curtain.

    13He must then put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement lid which is above the ark of the testimony, so that he will not die.

  • Exod 29:18
    72%

    18and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a soothing aroma; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

  • Deut 12:4
    71%

    4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.

  • Lev 20:7
    71%

    7Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience“‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

  • Num 18:32
    71%

    32And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

  • 1 Chr 9:30
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    30(But some of the priests mixed the spices.)

  • Exod 25:37
    71%

    37“You are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it.

  • Lev 10:7
    71%

    7but you must not go out from the entrance of the Meeting Tent lest you die, for the LORD’s anointing oil is on you.” So they acted according to the word of Moses.

  • Num 16:37
    71%

    37“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire at a distance.