KJV King James Version
Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
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Exodus 25:6
Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
WEB World English Bible
oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
ASV American Standard Version
oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices,
Surrounding context — Exodus 25
3 And this [is] the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ [hair],
5 And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
9 According to all that I shew thee, [after] the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make [it].
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Exodus 27:20And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.Exodus 40:24-25And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.Exodus 25:37And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.Exodus 30:23-38Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels],
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