The Holy Anointing Oil

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"Take the best spices - 500 shekels of myrrh [121/2 pounds], half this amount (250 shekels) of aromatic cinnamon [61/4 pounds], 250 shekels of aromatic cane,

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500 shekels of cassia (use the sanctuary standard), and one gallon of olive oil -

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and make them into a holy anointing oil; blend it and perfume it as would an expert perfume-maker; it will be a holy anointing oil.

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Use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark for the testimony,

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the table and all its utensils, the menorah and all its utensils, the incense altar,

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the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils, and the basin with its base.

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You are to consecrate them - they will be especially holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.

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Then you are to anoint Aharon and his sons - you are to consecrate them to serve me in the office of cohen.

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"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'This is to be a holy anointing oil for me through all your generations.

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It is not to be used for anointing a person's body; and you are not to make any like it, with the same composition of ingredients - it is holy, and you are to treat it as holy.

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Whoever makes any like it or uses it on any unauthorized person is to be cut off from his people.'"

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