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NASB	Exodus 30:23 "Take also for yourself the finest of spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty,
AMPLIFIED 2015	Exodus 30:23 "Take for yourself the best spices: five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much--two hundred and fifty--of sweet-scented cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty of fragrant cane,

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Bible Question: Ex 30:23 Moses is instructed to make a holy ointment. One of the ingredients is sweet calamus or in hebrew kaneh bosm, which means fragrant reed or hemp. Some use this verse to justify cannabis use. I do not.

What is the meaning of kaneh bosm? Is it cannabis? Is it just the flower that was used to make an aromatic ointment?

Thanks,
Joe

Bible Answer: Hi, Morleyde...

I've heard this too. :-) Boy, what folks will come up with! And they'll argue with you forever, regardless of the scholarship you cite! Of course, we see that kind of stubbornness all around us!

No, sweet calamus is "sweet cane, a product of Arabia and India, of a tawny color in appearance; it is like the common cane and strongly odoriferous." (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown).

In Him, Doc

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Drugs other than alcolhol in the Bible? (?)

dwellinme

Ex 30:23 kaneh bosm is cannabis? (?)

morleyde

Hi, Morleyde... I've heard this too....

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