The Bible talks of three wise men who traveled to Bethlehem bringing gifts to the infant Jesus.

Those gifts were gold, frankincense, and murre. I think most of you probably have a good

conceptual grasp about gold, but what's the deal with

frank and sense and murr? Were they really that big of a deal that they would bring it as a gift?

Learn more about frankincense and murr, what they are, and why they were such a big deal

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The Association of

of Frankincense and Merr comes to us from the Bible.

In particular the passages about the

three Magi who visit the infant Jesus.

The subject of who the three wise men were, I'm going to leave for a future Christmas

episode.

For the purposes of this episode, I'm just going to focus on their gifts.

The entire episode is only given a few lines in the Bible, in particular comes from Matthew 2 verses 1 through 12.

It says, and I'm going to edit it a bit for length, quote,

In the time of King Herod after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea,

wise men came from the east to Jerusalem asking,

where is the child who has been born King of the Jews?

For we observed his star at its rising and have come to pay him homage.

When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy.

On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his his mother and they knelt down and paid him homage

Then opening their treasure chests they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and murre

And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another path.

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