Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even 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.’”
- BSB Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall 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 30:38Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
- Gen 17:14And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
- Exod 12:15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exod 29:33And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
- Num 9:13But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Exod 12:19Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
- Heb 10:26–29For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
- Lev 17:9And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.
- Lev 17:4And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
- Luke 12:1–2In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Lev 23:29For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
- Lev 19:8Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
- Lev 7:20–21But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall 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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