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Myrrh References

(Gen 37:25 NIV) As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.

(Gen 43:11 NIV) Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift--a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.

(Exo 30:23 NIV) "Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,

(Est 2:12 NIV) Before a girl's turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.

(Psa 45:8 NIV) All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes you glad.

(Prov 7:17 NIV) I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

(Song 1:13 NIV) My lover is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

(Song 3:6 NIV) Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant?

(Song 4:6 NIV) Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.

(Song 4:14 NIV) nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.

(Song 5:1 NIV) I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink your fill, O lovers.

(Song 5:5 NIV) I arose to open for my lover, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

(Song 5:13 NIV) His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh.

(Mat 2:11 NIV) On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.

(Mark 15:23 NIV) Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.

(John 19:39 NIV) He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.

(Rev 18:13 NIV) cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men.