a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.
So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
You journeyed to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.
your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.
Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.
It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!
“Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane, and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil. And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
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