27 Bible Verses about Perfume

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Exodus 30:23-24

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. And cassia, five hundred by the holy shekel, and the oil of olive, a hin:

Mark 14:3

And he being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leprous, he reclining at table, a woman came having an alabaster box of perfumed oil of persuasive, costly, spikenard;. and having broken the alabaster box, she poured upon his head.

John 12:3

Then Mary having taken a pound of perfumed oil of spikenard, very precious, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hairs: and the house was filled with the smell of the perfumed oil.

Genesis 37:25

And they will sit down to eat bread, and they will lift up their eyes, and will see, and behold travellers, Ishmaelites come from Gilead, and their camels bearing perfumes and balsam and myrrh, going to carry down to Egypt

Ezekiel 27:19

And Dan and Javan going away gave in thy markets: making iron, cassia and sweet cane was in thy traffic.

Revelation 18:13

And cinnamon, and perfumes, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and the finest wheat flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and of souls of men,

Proverbs 7:17

I sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.

Isaiah 57:9

And thou wilt pour out for the king with oil and thou wilt increase thy perfumes, and thou wilt send thy messengers even from far off, and thou wilt be made low, even to hades.

Ezekiel 23:40-41

And also that ye will send to men coming from far off, whom a messenger was sent to them, and behold, they came: for whom thou didst wash, thou paintedst thine eyes, and thou didst deck with ornaments. And thou wilt sit upon a splendid bed, and a table set in order before his face, and thou didst bring up there mine incense and mine oil.

2 Corinthians 2:14-16

Grace to God, always leading us to triumph in Christ, and making manifest the order of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host: Truly to those an odor of death into death; and to those an odor of life into life. And who sufficient for these things?

Philippians 4:18

And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.

Ruth 3:3

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.

Psalm 45:8

Myrrh and aloes, cassia, all thy garments, from the temples of ivory, by which they gladdened thee.

Matthew 26:12

For she, casting this perfumed oil upon my body, did to prepare me for interment,

Mark 14:8

And what she had, she has done: she has undertaken beforehand to perfume my body for the burial.

2 Chronicles 16:14

And they will bury him in his graves which he digged for himself in the city of David, and they will lay him down upon the bed which was filled with spices and sorts seasoned with aromatics of work. And they will burn for him a great burning, even to vehemence.

Mark 16:1

And the sabbath having intervened, Mary Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they might anoint him.

John 12:7

Then said Jesus, Let her go; for the day of my interment has she kept this.

John 19:39-40

And Nicodemus also came, he having come to Jesus at first by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred pounds. Then took they the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen bandages with spices, as the custom is to the Jews to prepare a body for interment.

Exodus 37:29

And he will make the holy oil of anointing and the pure incense of aromatics, the work of the perfumer.

Exodus 30:25

And make it an oil a holy anointing, a perfumed unguent the work of the perfumer: it shall be an oil a holy anointing.

Exodus 30:35

And make it a perfume, an ointment, a work of the perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

1 Chronicles 9:30

And from the sons of the priests seasoning the ointment to the spices.

1 Samuel 8:13

And your daughters he will take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers.

Nehemiah 3:8

Upon his hand held fast Uzziel son of Harhaiah of the goldsmiths. And upon his hand held fast Hananiah son of the perfumers; and they will leave Jerusalem even to the broad wall.

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Perfume » Used in the tabernacle

Exodus 30:7

And Aaron to burn upon it incense of spices in the morning: in the morning in his adorning the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it

Exodus 35:28

And spice and oil for the light and for the oil of anointing, and for the incense of aromatics

Perfume » Smelling bottles, translated "tablets" in av

Isaiah 3:20

The head-dresses and the step chains, and the girdles, and the houses of the soul, and the amulets.

Perfume » Beds perfumed with myrrh

Proverbs 7:17

I sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.

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