the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
God Himself appointed the spices and their quantities because nothing comes to Him but what comes from Him; the oil was compounded with exact art, infused, strained, and left sweetly fragrant for the tent and all its furniture, and for consecrating the priests in their generations.
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Commenting on Exodus 30:22-38
And the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels,.... Pans, shovels, basins, &c. and this altar particularly was sprinkled with it seven times, Lev 8:10, and the laver, and his foot; the laver of brass for the priests to wash their hands and feet in, and the foot or base of it on which it stood, see Exo 30:18.
This oil was holy because God declared this mixture and preparation holy, and forbade its imitation on pain of death; it was not to anoint ordinary flesh but only the priests, and any layman using it was cut off from his people.
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Commenting on Exodus 30:26-33