Take thou also unto thee the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred (shekels), and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty,
But now thou hast cast (us) off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
While the king sat at his table, My spikenard sent forth its fragrance.
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?
Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense.
And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.