Exo 27:20-21, 30:7-8, Lev 24:2-4, 2Ch 13:11 | TSK | STEP | pure oil olive beaten.That is, such oil as could be easily expressed from the olives, after they had been bruised in a mortar; and which is much purer than that obtained after the olives are put under the press. for the light. to cause the lamp.Josephus says, that the whole of the seven lamps burned all night; and that in the morning four were extinguished, and three burned the whole of the day. Such might have been the practice in his time; but it appears sufficiently evident from ch. 30:8, and 1 Sa 3:3, that they were anciently extinguished in the morning. to burn. Heb. to ascend up.

Exodus 27:20-21

pure oil olive beaten.That is, such oil as could be easily expressed from the olives, after they had been bruised in a mortar; and which is much purer than that obtained after the olives are put under the press.

39:37; Le 24:2-4; Jud 9:9; Ps 23:5; Zec 4:11-14; Re 11:4

for the light.

25:31-37

to cause the lamp.Josephus says, that the whole of the seven lamps burned all night; and that in the morning four were extinguished, and three burned the whole of the day. Such might have been the practice in his time; but it appears sufficiently evident from ch. 30:8, and 1 Sa 3:3, that they were anciently extinguished in the morning.

to burn. Heb. to ascend up.

the tabernacle of the congregation.

29:10,44; Le 3:8; Nu 8:9

without the vail.

26:31-33; 40:3

testimony.

16:34; 25:16,21

Aaron.

30:8; 1Sa 3:3; 2Ch 13:11; Mal 2:7; Mt 4:16; Lu 12:35; Joh 5:35

2Co 4:6; 2Pe 1:19; Re 2:1

evening.

Ge 1:5,8; Le 24:3; Ps 134:1