Exodus 30:31

30:31 And you are to tell the Israelites: ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.

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.