23 “Next, take the choicest perfumes: 500 units of solidified myrrh, and half that amount, 250 units, of sweet cinnamon, 250 units of sweet calamus,

25 Then make out of it a holy anointing oil; it should be skillfully blended together.*+ It is to be a holy anointing oil.

12 Each young woman had her turn to go in to King A·has·u·eʹrus after completing the 12-month treatment that was prescribed for the women, for this was the way they had to fulfill their beauty treatment*—six months with oil of myrrh+ and six months with balsam oil+ and various ointments for beauty treatment.*

His lips are lilies, dripping with liquid myrrh.+