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The Anointing Oil

22 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 23 Take for yourself choice spices: five hundred shekels[a] of pure myrrh, half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels[b]), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cane, 24 five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin[c] of olive oil.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 30:23 About 12½ pounds, or 5.8 kilograms; and in v. 24.
  2. Exodus 30:23 About 6¼ pounds, or 2.9 kilograms.
  3. Exodus 30:24 Likely about 1 gallon, or 3.8 liters.