Exodus - 35:28



28 and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

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Explanation and meaning of Exodus 35:28.

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And spices and oil for the lights, and for the preparing of ointment, and to make the incense of most sweet savour.
and the spice, and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs.
and the spices, and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the spice perfume;
And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes.
and aromatics and oil, to maintain the lights, and to prepare ointment, and also to produce incense with a most sweet odor.
Aromata etiam et oleum pro luminari, et pro oleo unctionis, et pro incenso aromatico.

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Historical Commentaries

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And spice and oil,.... Such excellent spices and precious oil, pure oil olive, as the common people had not, and which they brought out of Egypt; the one was
for the light: for the light of the candlestick only; the oil, and other spices:
were for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense; the spices for the former were pure myrrh, sweet cinnamon, sweet calamus and cassia; and for the latter, stacte, onycha, galbanum, with pure frankincense.

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