Exodus 27:20-21

New International Reader's Version

Oil for the Lampstand

²⁰“Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil made from pressed olives. Use it to keep the lamps burning and giving light. ²¹Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning in the tent of meeting. The lamps will be outside the curtain in front of the tablets of the covenant law. The lamps must be kept burning in front of the Lord from evening until morning. This is a law for the Israelites that will last for all time to come.

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Exodus 27:20-21

New International Version

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. ²¹In 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.