Numbers 8:2
Speak thou to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him, When thou hast set (up) the seven lanterns, the candlestick (should) be raised (up) in the south part; therefore command thou this, that the lanterns behold even against the north to the board of [the] loaves of setting forth, (so that) those lanterns shall shine against that part that the candlestick beholdeth to. (Speak thou to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him, When thou putteth the lanterns onto the lampstand, put them so that their light shineth out towards the front.)
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In Context
1And the Lord spake to Moses, and said,
Cross References
Exodus 37:18six in ever either side (or six on each side), three rods on (the) one side, and three on the other side;
Exodus 39:37the candlestick, lanterns, and the purtenances of those, with [the] oil; (the lampstand, its lanterns, and its purtenances, and the oil;)
Leviticus 24:1And the Lord spake to Moses, and said,
Psalms 119:105[Nun.] Thy word is a lantern to my feet; and (a) light to my paths.
Isaiah 8:20It is to go to the law more rather, and to the witnessing, that if they say not after this word, morrowtide light shall not be to them. ( Say thou, It is better to go to the Law, and to the testimony, and if they say not after this word, then the light is not in them.)
John 1:9There was a very light (or There was a true light), which (en)lighteneth each man that cometh into this 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 →