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 30:32-33
Context30:32 It must not be applied 4 to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you. 30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest 5 will be cut off 6 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 Without an expressed subject, the verb may be treated as a passive. Any common use, as in personal hygiene, would be a complete desecration.
5 tn Heb “a stranger,” meaning someone not ordained a priest.
6 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.
