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The passages where aloes are mentioned clearly show that it was a highly odoriferous tree or wood, but it cannot be identified with certainty. Num. 24: 6; Ps. 45: 8; Prov. 7: 17; Cant. 4: 14. The ἀλόη was one of the perfumes which Nicodemus brought with which to embalm the body of our Lord. John 19: 39. The common aloes being of a disagreeable odour makes the identification of the above more difficult. The agallochum is the aloe-wood of more recent times.