Exodus 30:25

it i.e. the olive oil of v.24, by mixing it viz. with the other ingredients specified. -According to the Rabbis, the essences of the different spices were first extracted, and then mixed with the oil" (Kn.).

a perfume, &c. lit. a perfume of perfumery, the work of the perfumer(like the -work of the weaver," &c., see on Exodus 26:1: so v.35, Exodus 37:29). 1 Chronicles 9:30 (render -compounding the perfume of the spices") shews that in the age of the Chronicler (c.300 b.c.) the anointing oil was made by the -sons of the priests." For other allusions to perfumers or perfumery, see 1 Samuel 8:13 (RVm.), Isaiah 57:9; Nehemiah 3:8 (RVm.), Song of Solomon 5:13 (RVm.).

26 28 (cf. Leviticus 8:10). The Tent of meeting, the ark and other articles belonging to it, with their various vessels, to be all anointed with the aromatic oil thus produced. The command is repeated in Exodus 40:9-11: cf. also Leviticus 8:10; Numbers 7:1, and (specially of the altar) Exodus 29:36; Numbers 7:10; Numbers 7:84; Numbers 7:88.