Exodus 30:22-33 Anointing Oil

 Exodus 30:22-33 Anointing Oil

Read Exodus 30:22-33 here

Next God gave Moses instruction on the Anointing Oil.  Moses was to get the following spices:

1. 500 shekels of Myrrh

2. 250 shekels of cinnamon

3. 250 shekels of fragrant cane

4. 500 shekels of cassia

5. A hin of olive oil

These are the ingredients of the anointing oil.  Once they made the mixture they were use it to anoint the following:

1. Tent of Meeting

2. Ark of the Testimony

3. The table and all its articles

4. The lampstand and its accessories 

5. Altar of incense

6. Altar of burnt offering and all of its utensils

7. Basin with its stand.  

8. Aaron and his sons

Exodus 30:31-33

Say to the Israelites, ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil for the generations to come. Do not pour it on men’s bodies and do not make any oil with the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred. Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from his people.’ ”