Take thou also unto thee: the words are very emphatical, and the Jews from hence do rightly infer, that this ointment was but once made, and that by Moses’s own hands. Spices: see Son_4:14Eze_27:22; and compare Psa_45:8Amo_6:6.
Pure myrrh, Heb. myrrh of liberty; either,
1. Free from adulteration or mixture; or rather,
2. Freely dropping from the tree, which is esteemed better than that which is forced out of it.
Calamus; a sweet reed, of which see Isa_43:24Jer_6:20.