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The Oil for the Lamp

20 “And you are to command the Israelis to bring you pure olive oil, extracted by hand,[a] for the light in order to keep the lamp burning[b] continuously. 21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain that is before the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to maintain[c] the lamp stand[d] from evening until morning in the Lord’s presence. It is to be a perpetual ordinance from generation to generation among the Israelis.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 27:20 Lit. beaten; i.e. the olives were crushed in a mortar rather than pressed in an olive press
  2. Exodus 27:20 Lit. going up
  3. Exodus 27:21 Lit. arrange
  4. Exodus 27:21 Lit. it