Verse 20

You shall command the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the light, to keep the lamp burning continually.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 25:31-37 : 31 Make a lampstand of pure gold. It is to be made of hammered work: its base and shaft, its cups, its bulbs, and its flowers are to be of one piece with it. 32 Six branches are to extend from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches from the other. 33 On one branch, there are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms, with bulbs and flowers, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the next branch—both the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand. 34 And on the lampstand itself, there are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with bulbs and flowers. 35 A bulb shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, a bulb under the second pair of branches, and a bulb under the third pair of branches—each pair corresponding to the six branches extending from the lampstand. 36 The bulbs and branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it hammered out of pure gold. 37 Then make its seven lamps and set them up so that they illuminate the area in front of it.
  • Exod 39:37 : 37 The lampstand of pure gold with its lamps arranged in order, all its accessories, and the oil for the light were also brought.
  • Lev 24:1-4 : 1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Command the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. 3 Outside the curtain of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall set the lamps in order to burn continually before the LORD, from evening until morning. This is an everlasting statute for your generations. 4 He shall arrange the lamps on the pure lampstand before the LORD perpetually.
  • Judg 9:9 : 9 But the olive tree replied, 'Should I stop producing my rich oil, by which gods and humans are honored, to go sway over the trees?'
  • Ps 23:5 : 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
  • Zech 4:11-14 : 11 Then I answered and asked him, 'What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?' 12 Again, I asked him, 'What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes that pour out the golden oil? 13 He replied, 'Do you not know what these are?' I said, 'No, my lord.' 14 He said, 'These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of all the earth.'
  • Rev 11:4 : 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.