I have made my bed smell sweet with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Your clothes smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. From palaces of ivory music comes to make you happy.
Kings’ daughters are among your honored women. Your bride stands at your right side wearing gold from Ophir.
“Take the finest spices: twelve pounds of liquid myrrh, half that amount (that is, six pounds) of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six pounds of sweet-smelling cane,
Come, let’s make love until morning. Let’s enjoy each other’s love.
Who is this coming out of the desert like a cloud of smoke? Who is this that smells like myrrh, incense, and other spices?
Nicodemus, who earlier had come to Jesus at night, went with Joseph. He brought about seventy-five pounds of myrrh and aloes.