Leviticus 24:2

“Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil beaten from olives to be used in the lamp, that the light may burn continually.

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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

1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

3Outside the curtain before the covenant decrees in the tent of meeting, Aaron must continually, from evening to morning, keep the lamp lit before Yahweh. This will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations.

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Cross References

Exodus 39:37the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps in a row, with its accessories and the oil for the lamps;

Numbers 8:2“Speak to Aaron. Say to him, 'The seven lamps must give light in front of the lampstand when you light them.'”

2 Chronicles 13:11Every morning and evening they burn for Yahweh burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also arrange the bread of the presence on the pure table; they also tend the lampstand of gold with its lamps, for them to burn every evening. We keep the commandments of Yahweh, our God, but you have forsaken him.

Psalms 119:130The unfolding of your words gives light; 1 it gives understanding to the untrained. 1

Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not say such things, it is because they have no light of dawn. 1

Matthew 4:16The people who sat in darkness 1 have seen a great light, 1 and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, 1 upon them has a light arisen.”

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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