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The Anointing Oil

22 The Lord told Moses, 23 “You are to take for yourself the finest spices: 500 shekels[a]by weight of liquid myrrh, half as much fragrant cinnamon (250 shekels), 250 shekels of fragrant reeds, 24 500 shekels of cassia—all according to the shekel of the sanctuary—and a hin[b] of olive oil.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 30:23 The Heb. lacks shekels; Five hundred shekels is about 12 ½ pounds
  2. Exodus 30:24 I.e. about a quart

Oil for Appointing

22 Then the Lord said to Moses, 23 “Take the finest spices: twelve pounds of liquid myrrh, half that amount (that is, six pounds) of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six pounds of sweet-smelling cane, 24 and twelve pounds of cassia. Weigh all these by the Holy Place measure. Also take four quarts of olive oil,

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