Leviticus 24:2

Charge the children of Israel, and let them take for you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to burn a lamp continually,

LXX2012 (US English)

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 the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

3outside the veil in the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons shall burn it from evening until morning before the Lord continually, a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

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Cross References

Numbers 8:2Speak to Aaron, and you shall say to him, Whenever you shall set the lamps in order, the seven lamps shall give light opposite the candlestick.

2 Chronicles 13:11they sacrifice to the Lord whole burnt offering, morning and evening, and compound incense, and set the show bread on the pure table; and there is the golden candlestick, and the lamps for burning, to light in the evening: for we keep the charge of the Lord God of our fathers; but you⌃ have forsaken him.

Isaiah 8:20For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no + 8:20 See Heb. gifts to give for it.

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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