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Exotic & Costly Ingredients
Commentators identify "cassia" as a fragrant bark from a tree in India, related to but distinct from cinnamon. The use of such specific, valuable, and internationally sourced ingredients for the anointing oil highlights the great care, cost, and excellence God required for items used in His worship.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 30:22–33
18th Century
Theologian
Compare Exodus 37:29.
Exodus 30:23 Principal spices – that is, the best spices.
Pure myrrh – is a gum that …
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 30:24
19th Century
Bishop
Cassia. —In the original, kiddâh not kĕtsiôth. Which is the exact equivalent of the Greek and Latin cassia.<…
John Gill
On Exodus 30:24
17th Century
Pastor
And of cassia five hundred [shekels]
Or two hundred and fifty ounces:
after the shekel of the san…
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Matthew Henry
On Exodus 30:22–38
17th Century
Minister
Directions are given here for making the holy anointing oil and the incense to be used in the service of the tabernacle. To show the excellence of …