And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

and thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:

And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification.

And thou shalt make it into incense, a perfume, after the work of the perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

and thou hast made it a perfume, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, holy;

And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy.

And you shall make incense composed with the skills of a perfumer, diligently mixed, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification.

Et facies ex eo suffimentum aromaticum, opus aromatarii, mistum, purum et sanctum.

See Exodus 30:25.
Tempered together - The four substances were perhaps pounded and thoroughly mixed together, and then fused into a mass. This rendering is to be preferred to that in the margin.

And thou shalt make it a perfume,.... By mixing the above spices together:
a confection after the art of the apothecary; in the manner they beat, compound, and mix several ingredients together:
tempered together; or "salted" (l), with salt of Sodom, as Aben Ezra interprets it; and Maimonides (m) says, there was a fourth part of a kab of salt of Sodom put into it: and whether this incense or perfume respects the intercession of Christ or the prayers of his people, they are both savoury and acceptable to God, the latter on account of the former; in all sacrifices salt was used, and every spiritual sacrifice of ours should be seasoned with grace:
pure and holy; such should be the prayers of the saints, and such most certainly is the mediation of Christ, which is his much incense.
(l) "salitum", Montanus, Drusius. Junius & Tremellius, & Piscator. (m) Cele Hamikdash, c. 2. sect. 3.

Of this Moses was to make incense, spicework, etc. (as in Exodus 30:25), salted, seasoned with salt (ממלּח, a denom. from מלח salt), like the meat-offering in Leviticus 2:13. The word does not mean μεμιγμένον, mixtum (lxx, Vulg.), or rubbed to powder, for the rubbing or pulverizing is expressed by שׁחקתּ־הרק in the following verse.