Exodus 25:6

Exodus Old Testament

WEB

oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

KJV

Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

Commentary

Commentary

Oil for the light,.... For the light of the lamps in the candlestick: this was oil olive, as the Targum of Jonath an, and so Jarchi, see Exo 27:20 , spices for anointing oil; for the anointing of Aaron and his sons, and the tabernacle and its vessels, such as pure myrrh, sweet cinnamon, sweet calamus, and cassia: and for sweet incense; as stacte, onycha, and galbanum; from whence they had this oil and these spices, it is not easy to say, unless they brought them out of Egypt with them; which is likely, since the deserts of Arabia could not furnish them with them.