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 1 will be cut off 2 from his people.’”
1 tn Heb “a stranger,” meaning someone not ordained a priest.
2 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.