Reference: OINTMENTS
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Were much used by the ancient Hebrews, not chiefly for medical purposes as among us, but as a luxury, Ru 3:3; Ps 104:15; Song 1:2; Mt 6:17; Lu 7:46. Their perfumery was usually prepared in olive oil, and not in volatile extracts and essences. The sacred ointment is described in Ex 30:22-33. The ointments of the rich were made of very costly ingredients, and their fragrance was highly extolled, Isa 39:2; Am 6:6; Mt 26:7-9; Joh 12:5. See ANOINTING.
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And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying. Take thou to thee spices of head of flowing myrrh, five hundred: and fragrant cinnamon of its half, fifty and two hundred; and fragrant reed, fifty and two hundred. read more. And cassia, five hundred by the holy shekel, and the oil of olive, a hin: And make it an oil a holy anointing, a perfumed unguent the work of the perfumer: it shall be an oil a holy anointing. And anoint the tent of appointment, and the ark of the testimony, And the table and all its vessels and the chandelier and its vessels, and the altar of incense, And the altar of burnt-offering and all its vessels,, and the wash-basin and its pedestal. And consecrate them, and they shall be holy of holies; every one touching upon them shall be holy. And Aaron and his sons thou shalt anoint and consecrate them to be priests to me. And to the sons of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, An oil a holy anointing shall this be to me for your generations. Upon the flesh of man it shall not be poured, and according to its measure ye shall not make like it: it is holy; holy shall it be to you. A man who shall perfume like it, and shall give to the stranger, and he shall be cut off from his people.
And wash thou and anoint thyself, and put thy garments upon thee, and go down to the threshing-floor: thou shalt not make thyself known to the man till his finishing to eat and to drink.
And wine will gladden the heart of man, to cause the face to shine from oil, and bread will support the heart of man.
He shall kiss me from the kisses of his mouth: for thy good breasts are above wine.
And Hezekiah rejoiced over them, and he will cause them to see the house of the spices, the silver and the gold and the aromatics, and the good oil, and all the house of his vessels: and all which was found in his treasures, there was not a word which Hezekiah caused them not to see, in his house and in all his dominions.
Drinking wine in vases, and they will anoint with the chief of ointments: and they were not grieved for the breaking of Joseph.
And thou fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face;
There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of costly perfumed ointment, and she poured upon the head of him, reclining at table. And his disciples seeing, felt pain, saying, For what this loss? read more. For this perfumed oil could have been sold for much, and have been given to the poor.
Thou anointedst not my head with oil: and she anointed my feet with perfumed oil.
Wherefore was not this perfumed oil sold for three hundred drachmas, and given to the poor?