Exodus 30:37
You are not to make incense like it for your own use. You must hold it as a holy thing reserved for the Lord.
You are not to make incense like it for your own use. You must hold it as a holy thing reserved for the Lord.
Crush a part of it into a fine powder and put some of this in front of the Ark of the Covenant in the Tent of Meeting, the place appointed for my meetings with you. You must regard it as most holy.
Incense The Lord said to Moses: “Take sweet spices: storax, onycha, galbanum, sweet spices, and pure frankincense in equal parts,
Whoever makes any like it or uses it on an ordinary person shall be outlawed from the people.”
It is not to be used in any ordinary anointing of the body, nor are you to make any other oil of the same mixture. It is a holy thing, and you must treat it as such.
Then you are to say to the people of Israel: ‘Such will be the oil of holy anointing from generation to generation.
You must anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so that they may be priests in my service.
In this way, you shall consecrate them and they will remain extremely holy, and whatever touches them will become holy.
the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering with all its furnishings, and the basin with its stand.