Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for sweetsmelling incense:

oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs;

oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices,

Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

oil to prepare lights, aromatics as ointments and sweet-smelling incense,

Oleum pro luminari, aromata pro oleo unctionis et pro thymiamate aromatum:

Oil for the light - This they must have brought with them from Egypt, for they could not get any in the wilderness where there were no olives; but it is likely that this and some other directions refer more to what was to be done when in their fixed and settled residence, than while wandering in the wilderness.
Spices - To make a confection for sweet incense, abounded in different parts of these countries.

Oil for the light, spices for (d) anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
(d) Ordained for the priest.

Oil for the light,.... For the light of the lamps in the candlestick: this was oil olive, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi, see Exodus 27:20,
spices for anointing oil; for the anointing of Aaron and his sons, and the tabernacle and its vessels, such as pure myrrh, sweet cinnamon, sweet calamus, and cassia:
and for sweet incense; as stacte, onycha, and galbanum; from whence they had this oil and these spices, it is not easy to say, unless they brought them out of Egypt with them; which is likely, since the deserts of Arabia could not furnish them with them.

Oil for the candlestick (see at Exodus 27:20). בּשׂמים perfumes, spices for the anointing oil (see at Exodus 30:22.), and for the incense (הסּמּים, lit., the scents, because the materials of which it was composed were not all of them fragrant; see at Exodus 30:34.).