(The gold of that land is pure; ¹  pearls ²  and lapis lazuli ³  are also there).

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

“Take ¹  choice spices: ²  twelve and a half pounds ³  of free-flowing myrrh, ⁴  half that – about six and a quarter pounds – of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane,

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound ¹  of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard ²  and anointed the feet of Jesus. She ³  then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.) ⁴ 

and make it into an incense, ¹  a perfume, ²  the work of a perfumer. It is to be finely ground, ³  and pure and sacred.

He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices. ¹ 

“‘Then I bathed you in water, washed the blood off you, and anointed you with fragrant oil.

His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

Then ¹  they returned and prepared aromatic spices ²  and perfumes. ³  On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. ⁴ 

the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the Holy Place. They will make all these things just as I have commanded you.”

The fragrance ¹  of your colognes ²  is delightful; ³  your name ⁴  is like the finest ⁵  perfume. ⁶  No wonder the young women ⁷  adore ⁸  you!

His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.

You sat on a magnificent couch, with a table arranged in front of it where you placed my incense and my olive oil.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought aromatic spices ¹  so that they might go and anoint him.

Now on the first day ¹  of the week, at early dawn, the women ²  went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices ³  they had prepared.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil ¹  and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) ² 

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, ¹  in strips of linen cloth ²  according to Jewish burial customs. ³ 

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man – a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.