27 Bible Verses about Perfume

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"Take principal spices: of pure myrrh five hundred sicles, of sweet cinnamon half so much, two hundred and fifty sicles: of sweet calamite, two hundred and fifty. Of cassia, two hundred and fifty after the holy sicle, and of olive oil a hin.

When he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, even as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, called nard, that was pure and costly, and she brake the box and poured it on his head.

Then took Mary a pound of ointment called nard, perfect and precious, and anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped his feet with her hair, and all the house was filled of the savour of the ointment.

And they sat them down to eat bread. And as they lift up their eyes and looked about, there came a company of Ishmaelites from Gilead, and their camels laden with spicery, balm, and myrrh, and were going down into Egypt.

Dan, Javan, and Mevsall have brought unto thy markets, iron ready made, with Cassia, and Calamus, according to thine occupying.

and cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and bodies; and souls of men.

My bed have I made to smell of Myrrh, Aloes, and Cinnamon.

Thou wentest straight to kings with oil and divers ointments - that is, thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and yet art thou fallen into the pit thereby.

Beside all this, thou hast sent thy messengers for men out of far countries: and when they came, thou hast bathed, trimmed and set forth thyself of the best fashion. Thou sattest upon a goodly bed, and a table spread before thee: whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

Thanks be unto God which always giveth us the victory in Christ, and openeth the savor of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God the sweet savor of Christ, both among them that are saved, and also among them which perish: to the one part are we the savor of death unto death; and unto the other part are we the savor of life unto life. And who is mete unto these things?

I received all, and have plenty. I was even filled after that I have received of Epaphroditus, that which came from you, an odor that smelleth sweet, a sacrifice accepted and pleasant to God.

wash thyself therefore and anoint thee and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee to the threshing floor. But let not the man be aware of thee, until he have left eating and drinking.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia, when thou comest out of thine ivory palaces in thy beautiful glory.

And in that she casted this ointment on my body, she did it to bury me, withal.

She hath done that she could: she came aforehand to anoint my body to his buryingward.

And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.

And when the Sabbath day was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary Joseph, and Salome, bought ointments, that they might come and anoint him.

Then said Jesus, "Let her alone, against the day of my burying she kept it.

And there came also Nicodemus which at the beginning came to Jesus by night, and brought of myrrh and aloes mingled together about a hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the odors as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

And he made the holy anointing oil and the sweet pure cense after the apothecary's craft.

And make of them holy anointing oil even an oil compound after the craft of the apothecary.

and make cense of them compounded after the craft of the apothecary, mingled together, that it may be made pure and holy.

But certain of the sons of the priests were set to make sweet savours.

And he will take your daughters and make them the dressers of his ointments, and his cooks and bakers.

Next unto him builded Uzziel the son of Harhaiah the goldsmith. Next unto him builded Hananiah the Apothecary's son, and they repaired Jerusalem unto the broad wall.

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Perfume » Used in the tabernacle

Exodus 30:7

And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet cense every morning when he dresseth the lamps:

Exodus 35:28

and spice and oil: both for the lights and for the anointing oil and for the sweet cense.

Perfume » Smelling bottles, translated "tablets" in av

Isaiah 3:20

the goodly flowered wide and broidered raiment, brushes and headbands,

Perfume » Beds perfumed with myrrh

Proverbs 7:17

My bed have I made to smell of Myrrh, Aloes, and Cinnamon.

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