Exodus 25:37
Good News Translation
Make seven lamps for the lampstand and set them up so that they shine toward the front.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall make the seven lamps for it; and the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it.

Contemporary English Version
The lamp on the top and those at the end of each of its six branches must be made so as to shine toward the front of the lampstand.

New American Bible
You shall then make seven lamps for it and so set up the lamps that they give their light on the space in front of the menorah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light over against.

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Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light over against.

seven

Exodus 37:23 He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the vessels where the snuffings were to be put out, of the purest gold.

Zechariah 4:2 And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and the seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that were upon the top thereof.

Revelation 1:4,12,20 John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace be unto you and peace, from him that is and that was and that is to come: and from the seven spirits which are before his throne: . . .

Revelation 2:1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write: These things saith he who holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:

Revelation 4:5 And from the throne proceeded lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

they shall

Exodus 27:21 In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual observance throughout their successions among the children of Israel.

Exodus 30:8 And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an everlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

Leviticus 24:2-4 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the finest and clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually, . . .

2 Chronicles 13:11 And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning and evening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the law, and the loaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us the golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in the evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you have forsaken.

light, or cause to ascent.

Exodus 40:24 He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the testimony, over against the table on the south side,

Numbers 8:2 Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the loaves of proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh.

Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.

Proverbs 6:23 That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

Isaiah 8:20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.

Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.

Luke 1:79 To enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

John 1:9 That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.

John 8:12 Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Revelation 21:23-25 And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof. . . .

Revelation 22:5 And night shall be no more. And they shall not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten then. And they shall reign for ever and ever.

it Heb.

Numbers 8:2 Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the loaves of proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh.

Context
The Golden Lampstand
36And both the bowls and the branches shall be of the same beaten work of the purest gold. 37Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light over against.38The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.…
Cross References
Revelation 1:12
And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks:

Revelation 1:20
The mystery of the seven stars, which thou sawest in my right hand and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches. And the seven candlesticks are the seven churches.

Revelation 4:5
And from the throne proceeded lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Exodus 25:38
The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.

Exodus 40:25
Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord.

Numbers 4:9
They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and all the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps:

Numbers 8:2
Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the loaves of proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh.

Zechariah 4:2
And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and the seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that were upon the top thereof.

Exodus 25:36
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