Oil for the Lampstand^(A)

²⁰ “Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil^(B) of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning.

²¹ In the tent of meeting,^(A) outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law,^(B) Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps^(C) burning before the Lord from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance^(D) among the Israelites for the generations to come.

⁸ He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the Lord for the generations to come.^(A)

³ Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the Lord from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance^(A) for the generations to come.

⁴ The lamps on the pure gold lampstand^(A) before the Lord must be tended continually.

³ Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as the Lord commanded Moses.