Exodus 27:20

Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

In Context

19All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

21Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning, before the Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the children of Israel.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:31And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

Exodus 40:4And put the table inside, placing all the things on it in order; and put in the support for the lights, and let its lights be burning.

Leviticus 24:2Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,

1 Samuel 3:3And the light of God was still burning, while Samuel was sleeping in the Temple of the Lord where the ark of God was,

Zechariah 4:11And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?

Matthew Henry on Exodus 27:10-20

9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of… Read the whole commentary →

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