Exodus 30:38

Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — Yahweh addresses Moses at Sinai while finalizing the tabernacle’s incense regulations.

The words — נִכְרַת (nikh.Rat) literally means “he will be cut off,” and עַמּוֹ ('a.Mo) refers to “his kinspeople.”

The thread — The same exclusion appears in Exodus 30:33 for those who craft similar perfume or apply it to outsiders.

Why it lands — It requires believers to reject personal appropriation of sacred rites and submit strictly to God’s prescribed worship.

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The Hebrew words

אִ֛ישׁ'ishanyone אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-who יַעֲשֶׂ֥הya.'a.Sehhe will make כָמ֖וֹהָkha.Mo./halike/ it לְהָרִ֣יחַle./ha.Ri.achto/ smellבָּ֑הּBa/h<in> <the>/ itוְנִכְרַ֖תve./nikh.Ratand/ he will be cut off מֵעַמָּֽיו׃ סme./'a.Ma/vfrom/ kinspeople<s>/ his

King James Version

Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

Cross-references

Exodus 30:33 Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”