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.’”

Exodus 30:38

30:38 Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, ³  will be cut off from his people.”

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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.

³ tn Or to smell it, to use for the maker’s own pleasure.