Perfumes
Were used in religious worship, and for personal and domestic enjoyment (
Exodus 30:35
-37;
Proverbs 7:17
; Cant. 3:6;
Isaiah 57:9
); and also in embalming the dead, and in other funeral ceremonies (
Mark 14:8
;
Luke 24:1
;
John 19:39
).
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