The Translation of Calamus in Exodus 30:23 is a Lie.
If you actually buy the Calamus translation for the Holy Oil,
then you assume that God specified in Exodus 30:23 a drug commonly known as
Ecstasy. Calamus contains an ingredient called aserone. This is a
hallucinogen which is metabolized in the liver as trimethoxyamphetamine or
ecstasy. The Middle Eastern version of this plant is far more toxic than
it's North American Cousin. This is deadly to flies and other insects. The
Exodus 30:23 reference refers to sweet Calamus. If you look at this in the
Strong’s concordance where they spell this as qaneh rather than kaneh, they
pronounce this as Kaw-Naw, a reed, calamus, and cane are listed as possible
translations. The term sweet used in Exodus 30:23 in Hebrew is Bosem.
According to the Webster's New World Hebrew Dictionary, Bosem is perfume;
scent. The Concordance: the Hebrew is Bosem #1314, fragrance, by impl.
spicery; also the balsam plant:----smell, spice, sweet (odour). In some
Bibles sweet calamus is translated as aromatic or fragrant Cane. It is where
the bosem is fused to the word kaneh or qaneh that the cannabis translation
becomes apparent. So then to pronounce this we have kaw-naw-bosem, and is
spelled in English qaneh-bosem or kaneh-bosem.
In 1936, Sara Benetowa, later Known as Sula Benet, an etymologist from
the Institute of Anthropological Sciences, in Warsaw wrote a treatise,
"Tracing One Word Through Different Languages." This was a study on the
word Cannabis, based on a study of the oldest Hebrew texts. Although the
word cannabis was thought to be of Scythian origin, Benet's research
showed it had an earlier root in the Semitic Languages such as Hebrew.
Benet demonstrated that the ancient Hebrew word for Cannabis is Kaneh
-Bosem. She also did another study called Early Diffusion and Folk Uses
of Hemp. There is a reprint of this in Cannabis and Culture
ISBN:90-279-7669-4. On page 44, she states, "The sacred character of
hemp in biblical times is evident from Exodus 30:23, where Moses was
instructed by God to anoint the meeting tent and all of its furnishings
with specially prepared oil, containing hemp." On page 41 Sula Benet
writes, : In the course of time, the two words kaneh and bosem were
fused into one , kanabos or kannabus know to us from the Mishna.
According to the Webster's New World Hebrew Dictionary, page 607 the
Hebrew for hemp is kanabos.
Sara Benetowa discovered that the Kaneh-Bosem or Cannabis is mentioned 5
times in the Old Testament. The first occurrence appears in the
Holy Anointing Oil as Calamus, (Exodus 30:23). Sara argued that
the translation of Calamus was a mistranslation which occurred in
the oldest Bible the “Septuagint” and the mistranslation was copied in
later versions.
Ecstacy Is MDMA. Trimethoxyamphetamine has nothing to do with Ecstacy.
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