Numbers 8:2

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

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In The King James Version

Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.

In Context

1Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,

3Aaron did this. He lit the lamps on the lampstand to give light toward the front of it, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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Cross References

Exodus 37:18Six branches extended out from its sides—three branches extended from one side, and three branches of the lampstand extended from the other side.

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

Leviticus 24:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Psalms 119:105Your word is a lamp to my feet 1 and a light for my path. 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

John 1:9The true light, which gives light to all men, was coming into the world.

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 →

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