77 This is an accusative of result or product.
78 The word is in apposition to “incense,” further defining the kind of incense that is to be made.
79 The word מְמֻלָּח (mémullakh), a passive participle, is usually taken to mean “salted.” Since there is no meaning like that for the Pual form, the word probably should be taken as “mixed,” as in Rashi and . Seasoning with salt would work if it were food, but since it is not food, if it means “salted” it would be a symbol of what was sound and whole for the covenant. Some have thought that it would have helped the incense burn quickly with more smoke.

In other versions

and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.

Prepare expertly blended incense from these; it is to be seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

Using the usual techniques of the incense maker, blend the spices together and sprinkle them with salt to produce a pure and holy incense.

and make it into a compound of incense, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

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