'Spices' in the Bible
Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;
And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.
And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.
Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,
And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning spices,
And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights;
And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices,
And the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for the holy place; they will do whatever I have given you orders to have done.
And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning.
And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;
And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same.
And he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet spices for burning, after the art of the perfume-maker.