Exodus 30:36-38

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁶ and you shall beat some of it into powder, and put part of it before the covenant^[a] in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you; it shall be for you most holy. ³⁷ When you make incense according to this composition, you shall not make it for yourselves; it shall be regarded by you as holy to the Lord. ³⁸ Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from the people.