Exodus 27:20

And do thou charge the children of Israel, and let them take for thee refined pure olive oil beaten to burn for light, that a lamp may burn continually

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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

19And all the furniture and all the instruments and the pins of the court shall be of brass.

21in the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that is before the ark of the covenant, shall Aaron and his sons burn it from evening until morning, before the Lord: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations of the children of Israel.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:31And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold; thou shalt make the candlestick of graven work: its stem and its branches, and its bowls and its knops and its lilies shall be of one piece.

Exodus 40:4and thou shalt bring in the table and shalt set forth that which is to be set forth on it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick and place its lamps on it.

Leviticus 24:2Charge the children of Israel, and let them take for thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to burn a lamp continually,

1 Samuel 3:3And the lamp of God was burning before it was trimmed, and Samuel slept in the temple, where was the ark of God.

Zechariah 4:11And I answered, and said to him, What are these two olive trees, which are on the right and left hand of the candlestick?

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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