Numbers 8:2
“Speak to Aaron, and you shall say to him: When you place the seven lamps, let the lampstand be set up on the south side. Therefore, give this instruction: that the lamps should look out from the region opposite the north, toward the table of the bread of the presence; they shall give light opposite that area, toward the area that the lampstand faces.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3And Aaron did so, and he placed the lamps on the lampstand, just as the Lord had instructed Moses.
Cross References
Exodus 37:18six on the two sides, three branches on one side, and three on the other.
Exodus 39:37the altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of aromatics,
Leviticus 24:1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Isaiah 8:20And this is, moreover, for the sake of the law and the testimony. But if they do not speak according to this Word, then he will not have the morning light.
John 1:9The true Light, which illuminates every man, was coming into this world.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 8:2-5
The Lights of the Sanctuary. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. 3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the Lord commanded Moses. 4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the Lord had showed Moses, so he made… Read the whole commentary →