Discovery BoxExodus 30:25 
Context30:25 You are to make this 1 into 2 a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, 3 the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.
Exodus 30:37-38
Context30:37 And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the Lord. 30:38 Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, 4 will be cut off from his people.”
1 tn Heb “it.”
2 tn The word “oil” is an adverbial accusative, indicating the product that results from the verb (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, §52).
3 tn The somewhat rare words rendered “a perfumed compound” are both associated with a verbal root having to do with mixing spices and other ingredients to make fragrant ointments. They are used with the next phrase, “the work of a perfumer,” to describe the finished oil as a special mixture of aromatic spices and one requiring the knowledge and skills of an experienced maker.
4 tn Or to smell it, to use for the maker’s own pleasure.
