Numbers 8:2
Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the leaves of proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as the Lord had commanded 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 spices:
Leviticus 24:1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Isaiah 8:20To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.
John 1:9That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh 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 →