Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
Whosoever compoundeth, х 'iysh (H376) 'ªsher (H834)], the man who compoundeth [Septuagint, hos han poieesee hoosautoos].
Shall even be cut off from his people. It must be remembered that the Israelites were placed under a special dispensation of Providence, in which a vigilant superintendence was exercised over them, and not only temporal sanctions were held out, but temporal penalties denounced against individuals for offences which were of such a nature that, in ordinary circumstances, detection would have been difficult or impossible. Here the punishment of temporal death was threatened to the man who should compound an oil similar to that which was appropriated to the sacred uses of the tabernacle (see Warburton's 'Div. Leg.,' B. 6:, sec. 3).