Exodus 25:37

And thou shalt make its seven lamps; and when they light its lamps, it shall give light toward the body of it.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

In Context

36Their knobs and their branches shall be out of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of beaten work of pure gold.

38And its tongs, and its snuff-dishes shall be of pure gold.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:8And when Aaron lighteth the lamps toward evening, shall he burn it; a perpetual incense before the Lord, throughout your generations.

Exodus 40:24And he placed the candlestick in the tabernacle of the congregation, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle, southward.

Leviticus 24:4Upon the pure candlestick shall be put in order the lamps, before the Lord, continually.

2 Chronicles 4:20And the candlesticks with their lamps, to light them after the prescribed manner before the debir, of pure gold.

Psalms 119:105NUN. A lamp unto my feet is thy word, and a light unto my path.

Isaiah 8:20[Hold] to the law and to the testimony: if they are not to speak according to this word, in which there is no light.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 25:32-40

31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. 32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: 33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower:… Read the whole commentary →

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