'Perfume' in the Bible

And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.

No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.

And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil.

And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy.

You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord.

And the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for the holy place; they will do whatever I have given you orders to have done.

And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;

And he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet spices for burning, after the art of the perfume-maker.

And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the tent;

And when anyone makes a meal offering to the Lord, let his offering be of the best meal, with oil on it and perfume:

And let him take it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and having taken in his hand some of the meal and of the oil, with all the perfume, let him give it to the priest to be burned on the altar, as a sign, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.

And put oil on it and perfume: it is a meal offering.

And part of the meal of the offering and part of the oil and all the perfume is to be burned for a sign by the priest: it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

And the priest is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar on which perfume is burned before the Lord in the Tent of meeting, draining out all the rest of the blood of the ox at the base of the altar of burned offering which is at the door of the Tent of meeting.

But if he has not enough money for two doves or two young pigeons, then let him give, for the sin he has done, the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, for a sin-offering; let him put no oil on it, and no perfume, for it is a sin-offering.

The priest is to take in his hand some of the meal of the meal offering and of the oil of it, and all the perfume on it, burning it on the altar as a sign, for a sweet smell to the Lord.

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do.

And he is to take a vessel full of burning coal from the altar before the Lord and in his hand some sweet perfume crushed small, and take it inside the veil;

And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him.

And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.

Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burned offering, and on the altar of perfume, for all the work of the most holy place, and to take away the sin of Israel, doing everything ordered by Moses, the servant of God.

And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices.

But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.

Near them was working Uzziel, the son of Harhaiah, the gold-worker. And by him was Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, building up Jerusalem as far as the wide wall.

Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.

Then I gave orders, and they made the rooms clean: and I put back in them the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the perfume.

The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.

How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,

And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.

And they will come from the towns of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowlands, and from the mountains, and from the South, with burned offerings and offerings of beasts and meal offerings and perfume and offerings of praise, to the house of the Lord.

But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods.

And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume.

And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.

And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods.

For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.

And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.

There came to him a woman having a bottle of perfume of great price, and she put the perfume on his head when he was seated at table.

For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.

And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,

And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.

You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet.

Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.

Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

And another angel came and took his place at the altar, having a gold vessel for burning perfume; and there was given to him much perfume, so that he might put it with the prayers of all the saints on the gold altar which was before the high seat.

And the smoke of the perfume, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.