After the art of the apothecary
Pure Myrrh, מר דרור mar deror, 500 shekels (about 6 kg) Sweet Cinnamon, קנמן בשם kinnemon besem, 250 shekels (about 3 kg) Sweet Calamus, or Sweet cane, קנה בשם keneh bosem, 250 shekels (about 3 kg) Cassia, קדה kiddah, 500 shekels (about 6 kg) Olive oil, שמן זית shemen sayith, one hin (about 5 quarts according to Adam Clarke; about 4 L according toShiurei Torah, 7 L according to the Chazon Ish)
Shekel (Akkadian: šiqlu or siqlu; Hebrew: שקל, pl . shekels or sheqalim) is any of several ancient units of weight or of currency. ... This coin weighed about 180 grains (11 grams or .35 troy ounces).
hin - a Hebrew unit of liquid capacity equal to approximately 5 litres (about one gallon)
Pure Myrrh, 500 shekels (about 6 kg) or 60g oil to 7000ml of hemp oil 0.6 to 70ml 0.06 to 7 30 drops per ml 1 ml to 1 g
1.5 drop to 7 ml = 0.05 ... 1.5 drop to 6ml = 0.06 or 3 drops per 12 ml
24ml of base hemp oil + 6 drops Myrrh + 6 drops sweet cane or Kaneh - blosem + 3 drops Ceylon + 3 drops Cassia and a little magic
Note: Proportions prescribed in the Book of Exodus are 27% myrrh (6 kg); 14% Ceylon cinnamon (3 kg);
14% sweet calamus (3 kg); 27% cassia (6 kg); and 18% olive oil (4 liters/4 kg). Given pharmaceutical and
medical considerations of these proportions of spices, the “art of the apothecary” is more likely to indicate
an infusion, distilled or hotenfleurage process
Pure myrrh natural myrrh resin
sweet cinnamon Ceylon cinnamon bark
sweet calamus. Kaneh-bosem “sweet cane,” which is: fresh sweet flag, or fresh lemongrass, or fresh cannabis, or fresh galangal root
cassia Cassia cinnamon bark
oil olive
olive oil
22 Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23Take thou also unto thee principalspices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels,
and ofsweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of
sweet calamustwo hundred and fifty shekels,
24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of
oil olive an hin:
25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art
of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.
Exodus 30:22-
King James Version (KJV)
