Isaiah 60:6Jeremiah 6:20Song of Solomon 4:14Exodus 30:34Leviticus 2:1,166:1524:7Malachi 1:11Song of Solomon 1:3Psalm 141:2Luke 1:10Revelation 5:88:3

This frankincense, or olibanum, used by the Jews in the temple services is not to be confounded with the frankincense of modern commerce, which is an exudation of the Norway spruce fir, the Pinus abies. It was probably a resin from the Indian tree known to botanists by the name of Boswellia serrata or thurifera, which grows to the height of forty feet.