and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
Parallel translations
- WEB and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:
- KJV And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
- NKJV You shall make of these an incense, a compound according to the art of the perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.
- NASB You shall make incense from it all, a skillful mixture, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.
- NLT Using the usual techniques of the incense maker, blend the spices together and sprinkle them with salt to produce a pure and holy incense.
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Quick answer
The spices were blended into pure, holy incense, seasoned with salt. The incense of worship was to be pure, lasting, and set apart.
Overview
Skillfully compounded and seasoned with salt, the incense was both pure and enduring, fit for God's presence. Salt often signified covenant permanence and preservation. This holy incense pictures the worship and prayer of God's covenant people, kept pure and pleasing through Christ (Colossians 4:6; Psalm 141:2).
Cross-references & the web
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- Lev 2:13And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
- Exod 30:25Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil.
- Song 1:3The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
- John 12:3Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
- Prov 27:9Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.
- Song 3:6Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
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