Exodus 30:9
You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non offeretis super eo thymiama compositionis alterius, nec oblationem, et victimam, nec libabitis libamina.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ οὐκ ἀνοίσει ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῦ θυμίαμα ἕτερον, κάρπωμα, θυσίαν· σπονδὴν οὐ σπείσεις ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹא תַעֲל֥וּ עָלָ֛יו קְטֹ֥רֶת זָרָ֖ה וְעֹלָ֣ה וּמִנְחָ֑ה וְנֵ֕סֶךְ לֹ֥א תִסְּכ֖וּ עָלָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Composition, than what is prescribed, ver. 34. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Methodius The Banquet of the Ten Virgins; or Concerning Chastity, Chapter VI
Moreover, it has been handed down that the unbloody altar of God signifies the assembly of the chaste; thus virginity appears to be something great and glorious. Therefore it ought to be preserved undefiled and altogether pure, having no participation in the impurities of the flesh; but it should be set up before the presence of the testimony, gilded with wisdom, for the Holy of holies, sending forth a sweet savour of love to the Lord; for He says, “Thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim-wood shalt thou make it. And thou shalt make the staves of shittim-wood, and overlay them with gold. And thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. …