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19 Bronze will be for all the equipment of the tabernacle in all its service and all its pegs[a] and all the pegs[b] of the courtyard.

Instructions for Making Oil for the Lampstand

20 “And you will command the Israelites,[c] and they will bring to you pure, beaten olive oil for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 21 In the tent of assembly outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons will arrange it, from evening until morning, before Yahweh as a lasting statute throughout their generations from the Israelites.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 27:19 Literally “hands”
  2. Exodus 27:19 Literally “hands”
  3. Exodus 27:20 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  4. Exodus 27:21 Literally “sons/children of Israel”

19 All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.

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

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