Exodus 30:35 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Tempered together, Heb. salted; either,

1. Properly, for salt was to be offered with all offerings, Leviticus 2:13. And the Hebrew doctors tell us that six egg-shells full of salt were used. Or,

2. Metaphorically, well mixed together, as salt was with things either offered to God, or eaten by man. Pure, of the best of each kind of drugs, the most perfect and uncorrupted.

Exodus 30:35

35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, temperedh together, pure and holy: