Exodus 25 · Verse 6

Exodus 25:6

Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
Exodus 25:6, King James Version

Exodus 25:6 in other translations

BSBolive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
WEBoil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
ASVoil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
YLToil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices,
DARBYoil for the light; spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs;
BBEOil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;
WebsterOil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

What does Exodus 25:6 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 Oil for the light - This they must have brought with them from Egypt, for they could not get any in the wilderness where there were no olives; but it is likely that this and some other directions refer more to what was to be done when in their fixed and settled residence, than while wandering in the wilderness. Spices - To make a confection for sweet incense, abounded in different parts of these countries.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 25:1-9

God chose the people of Israel to be a peculiar people to himself, above all people, and he himself would be their King. He ordered a royal palace to be set up among them for himself, called a sanctuary, or holy place, or habitation. There he showed his presence among them. And because in the wilderness they dwelt in tents, this royal palace was ordered to be a tabernacle, that it might move with them. The people…

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Exodus 25:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שֶׁ֖מֶןShe.menoilH8081
לַמָּאֹ֑רla.ma.'Orfor the lightH3974
בְּשָׂמִים֙be.sa.MimspicesH1314
לְשֶׁ֣מֶןle.She.menfor [the] oil ofH8081
הַמִּשְׁחָ֔הha.mish.Chahthe anointingH4888
וְלִקְטֹ֖רֶתve.lik.To.retand for [the] incense ofH7004
הַסַּמִּֽים\׃ha.sa.Mimthe perfume<s>H5561

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 25:6

  • Exodus 27:20

    And 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 25:37

    And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

  • Exodus 30:23-38

    Take 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, And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil. And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, …

  • Exodus 40:24-25

    And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. And he lighted the lamps before the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Oil for.
37; 27:20; 40:24,25
spices.
30:23-38

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Exodus 25:5

    And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,

  • Exodus 25:6

    Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

  • Exodus 25:7

    Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

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Exodus 25:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Aceite para la luminaria, especias para el aceite de la unción, y para el sahumerio aromático;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
de l’huile pour le luminaire, des aromates pour l’huile de l’onction et pour l’encens des drogues odoriférantes;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Öl zum Licht, Gewürze zum Salböl und zum wohlriechenden Räucherwerk;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
oleum ad luminaria concinnanda: aromata in unguentum, et thymiamata boni odoris: