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Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Cassia is one of the ingredients of the holy anointing oil (Exodus 30: 24), and not the same as cinnamon, which was another ingredient. Some, however, hold that cassia was obtained from another species of cinnamon, and that the barks of both Cinnamomum zeylanicum and C. cassia were used in making the holy oil. It is more probable that the revisers are right when they suggest in the margin that the plant is costus. This is obtained from an Indian composite plant called Aplotaxis lappa, which grows on the mountains of the Cashmere Valley, where the aromatic root is largely dug up in the autumn, and is exported to China to be used as an ingredient in the incense in the temples. It is specified as one of the articles of Syrian commerce (Ezekiel 27:19). The cassia of Psalms 45: 8 is the translation of another Hebrew word, but most probably it refers to the same plant.
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