6Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
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And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, …
And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)We may suppose that when Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and abode there so long, where the holy angels attended the shechinah , or divine Majesty, he saw and heard very glorious things relating to the upper world, but they were things which it was not lawful nor possible to utter; and therefore, in the records he kept of the transactions there, he says nothing to satisfy the curiosity of…
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