Exodus 30:23
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“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
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and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.
with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones.
What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”
All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.
The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.