Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil. The perfumer's work — skilled in the blending of aromatics into a stable, fragrant compound — is the craft required for the anointing oil. The phrase the work of a perfumer is the same phrase used for the fragrant incense in verse 35: the highest level of aromatic craft is required for both the anointing oil and the incense. Sacred applies specifically to this formula: it is set apart from all other oil blends by the divine recipe and the divine designation.

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