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1 Enoch

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Chapter 29

1 And from there I went to another place in the desert, and approached the east of this mountain range. 2 There I saw aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh,⁠ and the trees also resembled almond trees.

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Compare Exodus 30:34 and 1 Enoch 29:2

Hebrew Bible · Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses

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Summary

1 Enoch refers to the incense ingredients listed in Exodus during one of Enoch’s journeys, using ritual elements from the temple to highlight the place he encounters as extraordinary.

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Exodus 30:34

Hebrew Bible
32 It must not be applied to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you. 33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people.’” 34 The Lord said to Moses, “Take spices, gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense of equal amounts 35 and make it into an incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer. It is to be finely ground, and pure and sacred. 36 You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.
750–400 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Exodus

1 Enoch 29:2

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
1 And from there I went to another place in the desert, and approached the east of this mountain range. 2 There I saw aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, and the trees also resembled almond trees.
300 BCE – 100 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in 1 Enoch

References

"... Frankincense is an aromatic resin exuded from the leaves and twigs of shrubs of the genus Boswellia. It was native to East Africa and primarily Arabia, where it was imported north along a well-established route. It was one component of the sacred incense mandated in Exodus 30:34-38 and was used in the sanctuary for other cultic purposes ..."
George W. E. Nickelsburg, A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108 (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001), 324.

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