Exodus 27:20

'And thou — thou dost command the sons of Israel, and they bring unto thee pure beaten olive oil for the light, to cause the lamp to go up continually;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

In Context

19even all the vessels of the tabernacle, in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, [are] brass.

21in the tent of meeting, at the outside of the vail, which [is] over the testimony, doth Aaron — his sons also — arrange it from evening till morning before Jehovah — a statute age-during to their generations, from the sons of Israel.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:31'And thou hast made a candlestick of pure gold, of beaten work is the candlestick made; its base, and its branch, its calyxes, its knops, and its flowers are of the same;

Exodus 40:4and hast brought in the table, and set its arrangement in order, and hast brought in the candlestick, and caused its lamps to go up.

Leviticus 24:2'Command the sons of Israel, and they bring unto thee pure olive oil, beaten, for the lamp, to cause a light to go up continually;

1 Samuel 3:3And the lamp of God is not yet extinguished, and Samuel is lying down in the temple of Jehovah, where the ark of God [is],

Zechariah 4:11And I answer and say unto him, 'What [are] these two olive-trees, on the right of the candlestick, and on its left?'

Matthew Henry on Exodus 27:10-20

9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of… Read the whole commentary →

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