Exodus 25:6

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Exodus 25:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

5 ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

6 olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

7 and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.

8 And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

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Exodus 25:37

Make seven lamps and set them up on the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.

Exodus 27:20

And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

Exodus 40:24

He also placed the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle

Exodus 40:25

and set up the lamps before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.

Exodus 30:23

“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,

Exodus 30:24

500 shekels of cassia —all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.

Exodus 30:25

Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil.

Exodus 30:26

Use this oil to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony,

Exodus 30:27

the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,

Exodus 30:28

the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.

Exodus 30:29

You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

Exodus 30:30

Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them to serve Me as priests.

Exodus 30:31

And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘This will be My sacred anointing oil for the generations to come.

Exodus 30:32

It must not be used to anoint an ordinary man, and you must not make anything like it with the same formula. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

Exodus 30:33

Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”

Exodus 30:34

The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,

Exodus 30:35

and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

Exodus 30:36

Grind some of it into fine powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.

Exodus 30:37

You are never to use this formula to make incense for yourselves; you shall regard it as holy to the LORD.

Exodus 30:38

Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”