Exodus 27:20-21
pure oil ... pressed olives <08081 02132 03795 02134> [pure oil olive beaten.]
That is, such oil as could be easily expressed from the olives, after they had been bruised in a mortar; and which is much purer than that obtained after the olives are put under the press.
light <03974> [for the light.]
lamps <05216> [to cause the lamp.]
Josephus says, that the whole of the seven lamps burned all night; and that in the morning four were extinguished, and three burned the whole of the day. Such might have been the practice in his time; but it appears sufficiently evident from ch. 30:8, and 1 Sa 3:3, that they were anciently extinguished in the morning.
burn <05927> [to burn. Heb. to ascend up.]
tent ... meeting <04150 0168> [the tabernacle of the congregation.]
outside ... curtain <02351 06532> [without the vail.]
testimony <05715> [testimony.]
Aaron <0175> [Aaron.]
evening <06153> [evening.]
lasting ordinance <05769 02708> [a statute for ever.]
Exodus 39:37
lamps .... lamps <05216> [even with.]
Exodus 40:24
Numbers 8:2-4
work <04639> [this work.]
beaten ............. beaten work <04749> [beaten work.]
pattern <04758> [the pattern.]
Numbers 8:1
When this was spoken, says Bp. Patrick, is not certain. If Moses went into the tabernacle immediately after the princes had offered, (ch. 7:89,) it may be thought he then spake these things unto him; but both this and what follows, concerning the Levites, seem rather to have been delivered after the order for giving them to the priests, and appointing their several charges. (ch. 3; 4.) But some other things intervening, which depended upon what had been ordered respecting their camp, and that of the Israelites, Moses omits this until he had stated them, and some other matters which he had received from God. (See ch. 7:11.)
Numbers 3:3-4
priests <03548> [the priests.]
consecrated <04390> [whom he consecrated. Heb. whose hand he filled.]
Nadab <05070> [Nadab.]
