Exodus 30:37
Modern Translations
New International Version
Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the LORD.

New Living Translation
Never use this formula to make this incense for yourselves. It is reserved for the LORD, and you must treat it as holy.

English Standard Version
And the incense that you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be for you holy to the LORD.

Berean Study Bible
You are never to use this formula to make incense for yourselves; you shall regard it as holy to the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.

NASB 1995
"The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.

NASB 1977
“And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.

Amplified Bible
The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
As for the incense you are making, you must not make any for yourselves using its formula. It is to be regarded by you as holy—belonging to the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As for the incense you are making, you must not make any for yourselves using its formula. It is to be regarded by you as sacred to the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
It is truly holy because it is dedicated to me, so don't ever make any for yourselves.

Good News Translation
Do not use the same formula to make any incense like it for yourselves. Treat it as a holy thing dedicated to me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never make any incense for yourselves using this formula. Treat it as holy to the LORD.

International Standard Version
You are not to make the incense that you make in this formulation for your own use. It is to be holy to the LORD for you.

NET Bible
And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the LORD.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.

New King James Version
But as for the incense which you shall make, you shall not make any for yourselves, according to its composition. It shall be to you holy for the LORD.

King James 2000 Bible
And as for the incense which you shall make, you shall not make it for yourselves according to the composition of it: it shall be unto you holy for the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for the LORD.

World English Bible
The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.

American King James Version
And as for the perfume which you shall make, you shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be to you holy for the LORD.

American Standard Version
And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves: it shall be unto thee holy for Jehovah.

A Faithful Version
And the perfume which you shall make, you shall not make any for yourselves according to the way it is made. It shall be holy to you for the LORD.

Darby Bible Translation
And the incense that thou shalt make, ye shall not make for yourselves according to the proportions of it; it shall be unto thee holy to Jehovah.

English Revised Version
And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to its composition: it shall be to thee holy for the LORD.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And ye shal not make vnto you any compositio like this perfume, which thou shalt make: it shalbe vnto thee holy for the Lord.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And you shal not make to your selues, after the makyng of that incense which thou shalt make: it shalbe vnto you holy for the Lorde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
but it shalbe holy vnto the for the LORDE.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And se that ye make none after the makinge of that, but let it be vnto you holye for the Lorde.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
As for the incense which you make, you do not make [any] for yourselves in its proportion; it is holy to you for YHWH;

Young's Literal Translation
'As to the perfume which thou makest, with its proper proportion ye do not make to yourselves, holy it is to thee to Jehovah;

Smith's Literal Translation
And the perfume which thou shalt make, according to its measure ye shall not make to you: it shall be holy to you for Jehovah.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You shall not make such a compound for your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And pound some of it and break it up and give some of it before the Testimony of the Time Tabernacle where I shall meet with you there; The Holy of Holies it shall be to you.

Lamsa Bible
And as for the perfume which you shall make, you shall not make to yourselves according to its composition; it shall be to you holy for the LORD.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves; it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Ye shall not make any for yourselves according to this composition; it shall be to you a holy thing for the Lord.
















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