Leviticus 24:2

“Command the sons of Israel, and they bring pure oil of beaten olive to you for the lamp, to cause a light to go up continually;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.

In Context

1And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

3Aaron arranges it at the outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, from evening until morning before YHWH continually—a continuous statute throughout your generations;

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Cross References

Exodus 39:37the pure lampstand, its lamps, the lamps of arrangement, and all its vessels, and the oil for the light.

Numbers 8:2“Speak to Aaron, and you have said to him: In your causing the lights to go up, the seven lights give light toward the front of the face of the lampstand.”

2 Chronicles 13:11and are making incense to YHWH, burnt-offerings morning by morning, and evening by evening, and incense of spices, and the arrangement of bread [is] on the pure table, and the lampstand of gold, and its lamps, to burn evening by evening, for we are keeping the charge of our God YHWH, and you have forsaken Him.

Psalms 119:130The opening of Your words enlightens, || Instructing the simple.

Isaiah 8:20To the Law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, “That there is no dawn to it.”

Matthew 4:16The people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death—light arose to them.”

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 24:2-10

Laws Concerning the Lamps. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. 3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations. 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the Lord continually. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →

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