Exodus 29:17

29:17 Then you are to cut the ram into pieces and wash the entrails and its legs and put them on its pieces and on its head

Exodus 30:33

30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people.’”


tn Heb “a stranger,” meaning someone not ordained a priest.

sn The rabbinic interpretation of this is that it is a penalty imposed by heaven, that the life will be cut short and the person could die childless.