Verse 20

Offering the Oil“You are to command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps will burn regularly.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 25:31-37 : 31 The Lampstand“You are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece. 32 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. 33 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on the next branch, and the same for the six branches extending from the lampstand. 34 On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms, 35 with a bud under the first two branches from it, and a bud under the next two branches from it, and a bud under the third two branches from it, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand. 36 Their buds and their branches will be one piece, all of it one hammered piece of pure gold. 37 “You are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it.
  • Exod 39:37 : 37 the pure lampstand, its lamps, with the lamps set in order, and all its accessories, and oil for the light;
  • Lev 24:1-4 : 1 Regulations for the Lampstand and Table of Bread The LORD spoke to Moses: 2 “Command the Israelites to bring to you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually. 3 Outside the special curtain of the congregation in the Meeting Tent Aaron must arrange it from evening until morning before the LORD continually. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations. 4 On the ceremonially pure lampstand he must arrange the lamps before the LORD continually.
  • Judg 9:9 : 9 But the olive tree said to them,‘I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!’
  • Ps 23:5 : 5 You prepare a feast before me in plain sight of my enemies. You refresh my head with oil; my cup is completely full.
  • Zech 4:11-14 : 11 Next I asked the messenger,“What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the menorah?” 12 Before he could reply I asked again,“What are these two extensions of the olive trees, which are emptying out the golden oil through the two golden pipes?” 13 He replied,“Don’t you know what these are?” And I said,“No, sir.” 14 So he said,“These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
  • Rev 11:4 : 4 (These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.)