38 verses contain “Perfume” (in the KJV: 10, in the BSB: 31) — showing 1–38
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And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
You are never to use this formula to make incense for yourselves; you shall regard it as holy to the LORD.
And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.
Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
Next to them, Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs, and next to him, Hananiah son of the perfumer made repairs. They fortified Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.
Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms;
For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
This perfume could have been sold at a high price, and the money given to the poor.”
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another: “Why this waste of perfume?
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.
And when thou shalt come into the marriage chamber, thou shalt take the ashes of perfume, and shalt lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shalt make a smoke with it:
The remembrance of Josias is like the composition of the perfume that is made by the art of the apothecary: it is sweet as honey in all mouths, and as musick at a banquet of wine.
The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.