Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”
Parallel translations
- WEB Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’”
- KJV Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
- NKJV Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on an outsider, shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
- NASB Whoever mixes any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
- NLT Anyone who makes a blend like it or anoints someone other than a priest will be cut off from the community.’”
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Quick answer
Anyone who copied the oil or put it on an outsider would be cut off from the people. Profaning the holy carried severe covenant consequences.
Overview
The penalty of being 'cut off' marked the gravity of misusing what God declared holy. It safeguarded the distinct boundary between the sacred and the common. The severity highlights God's holiness and our need of the one true Mediator, through whom alone we may rightly draw near (Hebrews 12:28-29).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Exod 30:38Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”
- Gen 17:14But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
- Exod 12:15For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
- Exod 29:33They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.
- Num 9:13But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
- Exod 12:19For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
- Heb 10:26–29If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
- Lev 17:9but does not bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD, that man must be cut off from his people.
- Lev 17:4instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle—that man shall incur bloodguilt. He has shed blood and must be cut off from among his people.
- Luke 12:1–2In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Lev 23:29If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.
- Lev 19:8Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.
- Lev 7:20–21But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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