Exodus 30:22-33

International Children’s Bible

Oil for Appointing

²² Then the Lord said to Moses, ²³ “Take the finest spices: 12 pounds of liquid myrrh, half that amount (that is, 6 pounds) of sweet-smelling cinnamon, 6 pounds of sweet-smelling cane ²⁴ and 12 pounds of cassia. Weigh all these by the Holy Place measure. Also take 4 quarts of olive oil. ²⁵ Mix all these things like a perfume to make a holy olive oil. This special oil must be put on people and things. Do this to make them ready for service to God. ²⁶ Put this oil on the Meeting Tent and the Ark of the Covenant with my laws in it. ²⁷ Put this oil on the table and all its dishes. And put this oil on the lampstand and all its tools. Put the oil on the incense altar. ²⁸ Also, put the oil on the altar for burning offerings and all its tools. Put this oil on the bowl and the stand under the bowl. Put oil on all these things to prepare them for service to God. ²⁹ You will give these things for service to God. They will be very holy. Anything that touches these things must also be holy.

³⁰ “Put the oil on Aaron and his sons to make them priests. Give them for service to me. Then they may serve me as priests. ³¹ Tell the Israelites, ‘This is to be my holy olive oil from now on. It is to be put on people and things to make them ready for service to God. ³² Do not pour it on the bodies of ordinary people. Do not make perfume the same way you make this oil. It is holy, and you must treat it as holy. ³³ Someone might make perfume like it. Or he might put it on someone who is not a priest. Then that person must be separated from his people.’”