Leviticus 24:2
Good News Translation
to give the following orders to the people of Israel: Bring pure olive oil of the finest quality for the lamps in the Tent, so that a light might be kept burning regularly.

New Revised Standard Version
Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.

Contemporary English Version
to say to the community of Israel: You must supply the purest olive oil for the lamps in the sacred tent, so they will keep burning.

New American Bible
Order the Israelites to bring you clear oil of crushed olives for the light, so that you may keep the lamp burning regularly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the finest and clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually,

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Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the finest and clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually,

that they

Exodus 27:20,21 Command the children of Israel that they bring thee the purest oil of the olives, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn always, . . .

Exodus 39:37 The altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of spices:

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

Numbers 8:2-4 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. . . .

1 Samuel 3:3,4 Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel slept in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. . . .

the lamps

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.

Psalm 119:105,130 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.

Isaiah 11:2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness.

Matthew 4:16 The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.

Matthew 5:16 So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 25:1-8 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. . . .

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.

Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands.

John 1:4,9 In him was life: and the life was the light of men. . . .

John 5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

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.

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.

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him:

Ephesians 1:18 The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

Ephesians 5:8-14 For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light. . . .

Philippians 2:15,16 That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world. . . .

burn continually [heb] ascend

Context
The Oil for the Lamps
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the finest and clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually,3Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations.…
Cross References
Exodus 27:20
Command the children of Israel that they bring thee the purest oil of the olives, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn always,

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.

Leviticus 24:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Leviticus 24:3
Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations.

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.

1 Samuel 3:3
Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel slept in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.

Leviticus 24:1
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