Whoever mixes any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman 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.
- 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.’ ”
- 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 30:38Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.”
- Gen 17:14The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
- Exod 12:15“‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exod 29:33They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
- Num 9:13But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Exod 12:19There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
- Heb 10:26–29For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
- Lev 17:9and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice it to Yahweh; that man shall be cut off from his people.
- Lev 17:4and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
- Luke 12:1–2Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Lev 23:29For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.
- Lev 19:8but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.
- Lev 7:20–21but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, 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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