Numbers 8:2
“Tell Aaron to put the seven lamps on the lampstand and place them in such a way that they shine toward the front of the lampstand.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
3So Moses/I told him what Yahweh said, and he did that.
Cross References
Exodus 37:18There were six branches on the lampstand, three on each side of the shaft.
Exodus 39:37the lampstand made of pure gold and all its lamps and all the things that were to be used to take care of it, the oil for the lamps,
Leviticus 24:1Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
Psalms 119:105Your words are like [MET] a lamp to guide me; they are like a light [MET] to show me the path that I should walk on.
Isaiah 8:20Pay attention to God’s instructions and teaching! If people do not say things that agree with what God teaches us, what they say is worthless. It is as though those people are in darkness.
John 1:9While John was doing that, the one who was truly like a light was about to show himself to the world. He was the one who enables all people to know about God, as a light [MET] enables people to know what is in the darkness.
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 →