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Ramban on Exodus 30:9/רמב"ן על שמות ל׳:ט׳
אקְטֹרֶת זָרָה שׁוּם קְטֹרֶת שֶׁל נְדָבָה, שֶׁכֻּלָּן זָרוֹת לוֹ חוּץ מִזּוֹ. לְשׁוֹן רַשִׁ"י (רש"י על שמות ל':ט'). אֲבָל אוּנְקְלוֹס (תרגום אונקלוס על שמות ל':ט') אָמַר "קְטֹרֶת בֻּסְמִין נֻכְרָאִין", וְלֹא תִּרְגֵּם נוּכְרֵיתָא, רָצָה לְפָרֵשׁ שֶׁלֹּא יַעֲשֶׂה קְטֹרֶת מִסַּמִּים אֲחֵרִים זוּלָתִי הַקְּטֹרֶת אֲשֶׁר יְצַוֶּה אוֹתָם, וְכֵן אִם הוֹסִיף בָּהּ סַמִּים אֲחֵרִים יַעֲבֹר בַּלָּאו הַזֶּה:
1YE SHALL NOT BRING UP ‘KTORETH ZARAH’ (STRANGE INCENSE) THEREON — “any incense brought as a freewill offering; for all [offerings of incense] are ‘strange’ to [this altar] except this one [prescribed here].” This is Rashi’s language. But Onkelos rendered ktoreth zarah: ktoreth busmin nuchra’in (“the burning of aromatics which are of strange components,”) and he did not translate it nuchritha “strange incense” [as Rashi interpreted it]. By this translation Onkelos wanted to explain that the sense of the verse is that he should not offer an incense of any other components except those prescribed as He commanded.247 Similarly, if one were to add to the prescribed composition any other components one would transgress this negative commandment.Ki Thisa