Keluaran 30:23

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"Ambillah rempah-rempah pilihan, mur tetesan lima ratus syikal, dan kayu manis yang harum setengah dari itu, yakni dua ratus lima puluh syikal, dan tebu yang baik dua ratus lima puluh syikal,

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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
"Ambillah rempah-rempah pilihan, mur tetesan lima ratus syikal, dan kayu manis yang harum setengah dari itu, yakni dua ratus lima puluh syikal, dan tebu yang baik dua ratus lima puluh syikal,

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Maka hendaklah engkau mengambil rempah-rempah yang terutama, yaitu mur yang cair lima ratus bahagian dan kayu manis yang wangi separuhnya, yaitu dua ratus lima puluh bahagian, dan deringu yang wangipun dua ratus lima puluh bahagian

Bible Verse Review
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thee principal: Exodus 37:29, Psalms 45:8, Proverbs 7:17, Song of Solomon 1:3, Song of Solomon 1:13, Song of Solomon 4:14, Jeremiah 6:20, Ezekiel 27:19, Ezekiel 27:22

pure myrrh: Myrrh is a white gum, issuing from the trunk and larger branches of a thorny tree resembling the acacia, growing in Arabia, Egypt, and Abyssinia. Its taste is extremely bitter; but its smell, though strong, is agreeable; and it entered into the composition of the most costly ointments among the ancients. The epithet deror, rendered pure, properly denotes fluid, from the Arabic darra, to flow; by which is meant the finest and most excellent kind, called stacte, which issues of itself from the bark without incision.

cinnamon: Kinnamon bosem, odoriferous or spicy cinnamon, is the bark of the canella, a small tree of the size of a willow growing in the island of Ceylon.

sweet calamus: Kenaih bosem, calamus aromaticus, or odoriferous cane, is a reed growing in Egypt, Syria, and India, about two feet in height, bearing from the root a knotted stalk, quite round, containing in its cavity a soft white pith. It is said to scent the air while growing; and when cut down, dried, and powdered, makes an ingredient in the richest perfumes.

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:6 - spices Exodus 28:41 - anoint them Exodus 29:7 - General Exodus 30:34 - unto thee Exodus 31:11 - the anointing Exodus 35:8 - spices Exodus 35:28 - General Exodus 40:9 - the anointing oil Leviticus 8:2 - anointing Leviticus 8:10 - General Numbers 4:16 - the anointing Numbers 7:1 - anointed it 1 Kings 1:39 - out 1 Chronicles 9:29 - the frankincense Song of Solomon 4:6 - the mountain Isaiah 43:24 - no sweet Matthew 2:11 - frankincense Matthew 26:7 - very

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take thou also unto thee principal spices,.... To make the anointing oil with, and are as follow:

of pure myrrh five hundred shekels; it is strange that Saadiah, and so Maimonides f, should take this for musk, which comes from a beast, and is confuted by Aben Ezra from Song of Solomon 5:1 from whence it plainly appears to be what comes from a tree; and the word "mor", here used, gives the tree the name of myrrh almost in all languages. And it is justly mentioned first among the chief of spices; since, as Pliny g says, none is preferred unto the stacte or liquor that flows from it, that which is pure myrrh, unmixed, unadulterated; or "myrrh of freedom" h, which flows freely, either of itself, or, when cut, which is the best; and this was fitly used as a principal ingredient in the anointing oil, since oil was made out of it itself, called oil of myrrh, Esther 2:12 and as a shekel is generally supposed to weigh half an ounce, the quantity of this to be taken was two hundred and fifty ounces:

and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty [shekels]; or one hundred twenty five ounces: it is here called sweet cinnamon, to distinguish it from that which was not sweet; so Jarchi observes,

"there is one sort that has a good smell and taste, another that has not, but is as wood (common wood), therefore it was necessary to say sweet cinnamon.''

So Pliny i speaks of two sorts of it, one whiter, and another blacker; sometimes the white is preferred, and sometimes the black is commended. The cinnamon tree grows in great plenty in the island of Zeilon in India (Ceylon or called Srilanka today, Editor), as Vartomanus k relates, who says it is not much unlike a bay tree, especially the leaves; it beareth berries as does the bay tree, but less and white; it is doubtless no other than the bark of a tree, and gathered in this manner; every third year they cut the branches of the tree--when it is first gathered it is not yet so sweet, but a month after, when it waxeth dry; and with this Pliny l agrees, who says it is not odorous while it is green. Pancirollus m reckons cinnamon among the things that are lost; and says, that we have no knowledge of the true cinnamon; and reports from Galen, that in his time it was so scarce, that it was rarely found but in the cabinets of emperors. Pliny n makes mention of it, as used in ointments:

and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels]; or one hundred and twenty five ounces; and this is called sweet, because there is a calamus that is not sweet, as Jarchi; this is the same with the sweet cane from a far country, Jeremiah 6:20 from India, as is generally thought; but rather perhaps from Sheba, or some part of Arabia; it must be nearer at hand than India, from whence the Israelites had these spices; and Moses is bid to take them, as if they were near indeed; and Pliny speaks of myrrh, and of sweet calamus, as growing in many places of Arabia, and of cinnamon in Syria o; and Dionysius Periegetes p mentions calamus along with frankincense, myrrh, and cassia, and calls it sweet smelling calamus; and so Strabo q speaks of cassia and cinnamon as in Arabia Felix; and Diodorus Siculus r makes mention of all these in Arabia, and of cassia that follows.

f Cele Hamikdash, c. 1. sect. 3. g Nat. Hist. l. 12, 15. h מר דרור "myrrhae libertatis", Montanus, Vatablus; "myrrhae sponte fluentis", Tigurine version. i Ibid. c. 19. k Navigat. l. 6. c. 4. l Ut supra. (Nat. Hist. l. 12, 15.) m Rer. Memorab. sive Deperd. par. 1. tit. 9. p. 28. n Ib. l. 15. c. 7. o Nat. Hist. l. 12. c. 15, 22, 28. p Orb. Descript. l. 937. q Geograph. l. 16. p. 538. r Bibliothec. l. 2. p. 132.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 37:29.

Exodus 30:23

Principal spices - i. e. the best spices.

Pure myrrh - Is a gum which comes from the stem of a low, thorny, ragged tree, that grows in Arabia Felix and Eastern Africa, called by botanists Balsamodendron myrrha. The word here rendered pure, is literally, “freely flowing”, an epithet which is explained by the fact that the best myrrh is said to exude spontaneously from the bark, while that of inferior quality oozes out in greater quantity from incisions made in the bark.

Five hundred shekels - Probably rather more than 15 1/4 lbs. See Exodus 38:24.

Cinnamon - is obtained from a tree allied to the laurel that grows in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and other islands of the Indian Ocean, known in Botany as the Cinnamomum zeylanicum. It is the inner rind of the tree dried in the sun. It was imported from India in very early times by the people of Ophir, and brought with other spices from the south part of Arabia by the trading caravans that visited Egypt and Syria. The mention of these spices in Exodus may be taken as the earliest notice we have connected with commerce with the remote East.

Two hundred and fifty shekels - about 7 lbs. 14 oz.

Sweet calamus - The fragrant cane (or rush) was probably what is now known in India as the Lemon Grass.

Exodus 30:24

Cassia - is the inner bark of an Indian tree (Cinnamomum cassia), which differs from that which produces cinnamon in the shape of its leaves and some other particulars. It was probably in ancient times, as it is at present, by far less costly than cinnamon, and it may have been on this account that it was used in double quantity.

An hin - Probably about six pints. See Leviticus 19:36.

Exodus 30:25

An oil of holy ointment - Rather, a holy anointing oil.

After the art of the apothecary - According to Jewish tradition, the essences of the spices were first extracted, and then mixed with the oil. The preparation of the anointing oil, as well as of the incense, was entrusted to Bezaleel Exodus 37:29, and the care of preserving it to Eleazar, the son of Aaron Numbers 4:16. In a later age, it was prepared by the sons of the priests 1 Chronicles 9:30.

Exodus 30:32

Upon man’s flesh - i. e. on the persons of those who were not priests who might employ it for such anointing as was usual on festive occasions (Psalms 104:15; Proverbs 27:9; Matthew 6:17, etc.).

Exodus 30:33

A stranger - See Exodus 29:33.

Cut off from his people - See Exodus 31:14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 30:23. Take - unto thee principal spices — From this and the following verse we learn that the holy anointing oil was compounded of the following ingredients: -

Pure myrrh, מר דרור mar deror	500 shekels - Myrrh is the produce of an oriental tree not well known, and is collected by making an incision in the tree. What is now called by this name is precisely the same with that of the ancients.
Sweet cinnamon, קנמן בשם kinnemon besem, (probably from Arabia)	250 shekels.
Sweet calamus, קנה בשם keneh bosem, or sweet cane, Jeremiah 6:20. - Calamus aromaticus.	250 shekels.
Cassia, קדה kildah, (cassia lignea,) brought also from Arabia.	500 shekels.
Olive oil, שמן זית shemen sayith, one hin, about...	5 quarts.

	lbs.	oz.	dwts.	grs.
lbs. oz. dwts. grs. 500 shekels of the first and last, make	48	4	12	21 21/31
250 of the cinnamon and calamus	24	2	6	10 26/31

Olive oil is supposed to be the best preservative of odours. As the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit are termed the anointing of the Holy Ghost, therefore this holy ointment appears to have been designed as emblematical of those gifts and graces. See Acts 1:5; Acts 10:38; 2 Corinthians 1:21; 1 John 2:20, 1 John 2:27.