38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
38 Whoever makes incense like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from their people."
38 Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people."
38 Whoever copies it for personal use will be excommunicated."
38 Whoever makes any like it, to smell it, he shall be cut off from his people."
38 Anyone who makes incense like this for personal use will be cut off from the community."
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
21 "I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
21 "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
21 "I can't stand your religious meetings. I'm fed up with your conferences and conventions.
21 "I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
21 "I hate all your show and pretense- the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
(Read Amos 5:18-27)
Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not reformed by the judgments of God, will be pursued by them; if they escape one, another stands ready to seize them. A pretence of piety is double iniquity, and so it will be found. The people of Israel copied the crimes of their forefathers. The law of worshipping the Lord our God, is, Him only we must serve. Professors thrive so little, because they have little or no communion with God in their duties. They were led captive by Satan into idolatry, therefore God caused them to go into captivity among idolaters.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 30:38
Commentary on Exodus 30:22-38
(Read Exodus 30:22-38)
Directions are here given for making the holy anointing oil, and the incense to be used in the service of the tabernacle. To show the excellency of holiness, there was this spiced oil in the tabernacle, which was grateful to the sight and to the smell. Christ's name is as ointment poured forth, Ecclesiastes 7:1. The incense burned upon the golden altar was prepared of sweet spices. When it was used, it was to be beaten very small; thus it pleased the Lord to bruise the Redeemer, when he offered himself for a sacrifice of a sweet-smelling savour. The like should not be made for any common use. Thus God would keep in the people's minds reverence for his own services, and teach us not to profane or abuse any thing whereby God makes himself known. It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, and to make sport with his word and ordinances. It is most dangerous and fatal to use professions of the gospel of Christ to forward wordly interests.