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A perfumer’s materials surround a vessel of golden olive oil.
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Exodus 30:22-25

The Holy Anointing Oil

The incense altar · Exodus 30

Story guide: Yahweh specifies myrrh, cinnamon, fragrant cane, cassia and olive oil for a perfumer’s holy anointing blend.

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22Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

23And you, take for yourself the finest spices: five hundred shekels of flowing myrrh, and half as much—two hundred fifty—of fragrant cinnamon, and two hundred fifty of fragrant cane,

24and cassia, five hundred shekels by the sanctuary shekel, and a hin of olive oil.

25And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume blended by the work of a perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

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