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Exodus 30:34
New English Translation
Exodus 30:34
New English Translation
34 The Lord said to Moses, “Take[a] spices, gum resin,[b] onycha,[c] galbanum,[d] and pure frankincense[e] of equal amounts[f]
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- Exodus 30:34 tn The construction is “take to you,” which could be left in that literal sense, but more likely the suffix is an ethical dative, stressing the subject of the imperative.
- Exodus 30:34 sn This is from a word that means “to drip”; the spice is a balsam that drips from a resinous tree.
- Exodus 30:34 sn This may be a plant, or it may be from a species of mollusks; it is mentioned in Ugaritic and Akkadian; it gives a pungent odor when burnt.
- Exodus 30:34 sn This is a gum from plants of the genus Ferula; it has an unpleasant odor, but when mixed with others is pleasant.
- Exodus 30:34 tn The word “spice” is repeated here, suggesting that the first three formed half of the ingredients and this spice the other half—but this is conjecture (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 400).
- Exodus 30:34 tn Heb “of each part there will be an equal part.”
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