Terkait untuk Amsal 16:4

Those from the House of Avtinas were highly skilled in [mixing] the spices of the incense with the smoke-raising herb and did not want to impart their knowledge [to others]. The Sages sent forth and brought experts from Alexandria, from Egypt, who could mix together any spice, but they were not proficient with the smoke-raising herb. That of the House of Avtinas would rise straight up to the ceiling, and after that spread out and descend below, [while] that of Alexandria would spread out immediately. When the matter became known to the Sages, they said, "God only created the world for His glory," as it is said (Prov. 16:4), "[God] created everything for a purpose." The Sages sent forth to them, but they did not come until they doubled their wages. Twelve maneh they had given them every day, but they went back and gave them twenty-four, the words of Rabbi Meir. Rabbi Yehuda says, twenty-four they would give them every day, and they went back and gave them forty-eight maneh. The Sages said to them, "Why did you see fit not to impart your knowledge?" They said to them, "It was known to the house of our fathers that in the future the Temple will be destroyed, and they did not want to impart their knowledge, so that incense would not be brought before objects of idolatry in the same way that it is brought before the Place." And in this matter they were remembered as praiseworthy: that no woman ever went out perfumed from among them, and not only that, but when their women would get married in another place, they would make an agreement with her that she would not perfume herself, so that the Jewish people would not say that she perfumed herself from the [mixing of] the spices of the incense, to fulfill what it says (Num. 32:22), "And they shall be found blameless before God and before Israel."