Teks -- Exodus 30:37-38 (NET)

30:37 And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the Lord. 30:38 Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, will be cut off from his people.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Exo 30:34-38 - the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices

These were:

JFB: Exo 30:34-38 - stacte

The finest myrrh;

JFB: Exo 30:34-38 - onycha

Supposed to be an odoriferous shell;

JFB: Exo 30:34-38 - galbanum

A gum resin from an umbelliferous plant.

JFB: Exo 30:34-38 - frankincense

A dry, resinous, aromatic gum, of a yellow color, which comes from a tree in Arabia, and is obtained by incision of the bark. This incense was placed within the sanctuary, to be at hand when the priest required to burn on the altar. The art of compounding unguents and perfumes was well known in Egypt, where sweet-scented spices were extensively used not only in common life, but in the ritual of the temples. Most of the ingredients here mentioned have been found on minute examination of mummies and other Egyptian relics; and the Israelites, therefore, would have the best opportunities of acquiring in that country the skill in pounding and mixing them which they were called to exercise in the service of the tabernacle. But the recipe for the incense as well as for the oil in the tabernacle, though it receives illustration from the customs of Egypt, was peculiar, and being prescribed by divine authority, was to be applied to no common or inferior purpose.

TSK: Exo 30:37 - ye shall // it shall

ye shall : Exo 30:32, Exo 30:33

it shall : Exo 29:37; Lev 2:3

TSK: Exo 30:38 - be cut off

be cut off : Exo 30:33

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Gill: Exo 30:37 - And as for the perfume which thou shalt make // ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof // it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord

And as for the perfume which thou shalt make,.... As above directed:

ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof; that is, for their own use, for the scenting of their rooms, or to snuff up, or smell to, as in the next verse:

it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord; separated entirely for his service, to be burned upon his altar, and to be no otherwise used.

Gill: Exo 30:38 - Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto // shall even be cut off from his people

Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto,.... A man might make a perfume of the same ingredients, and of the same weight, and exactly like it, but not to burn for his own delight and pleasure; but if he made it and sold it to the congregation, as Jarchi observes, he was not guilty; but if it was for his own private use and pleasure, then he

shall even be cut off from his people; See Gill on Exo 30:33.