The verse opens the Lord's instructions to Moses for making special preparations to be used in the tabernacle service. Those preparations were set apart as sacred and were never to be treated as common things. The holy anointing oil in particular was not to be poured upon ordinary persons, nor was its formula to be copied for ordinary or secular use. Anyone who misused the sacred oil by such profane use was to be cut off and excluded from the people.
The verse opens the Lord's instructions to Moses for making special preparations to be used in the tabernacle service. Those preparations were set apart as sacred and were never to be treated as common things. The holy anointing oil in particular was not to be poured upon ordinary persons, nor was its formula to be copied for ordinary or secular use. Anyone who misused the sacred oil by such profane use was to be cut off and excluded from the people.