Numbers 8:3
Good News Translation
Aaron obeyed and placed the lamps facing the front of the lampstand.

New Revised Standard Version
Aaron did so; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Contemporary English Version
Aaron obeyed and placed the lamps as he was told.

New American Bible
Aaron did so, setting up the menorah-lamps to face the area in front of the menorah, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Context
The Seven Lamps
2Speak 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. 3And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as the Lord had commanded Moses.4Now this was the work of the candlestick, it was of beaten gold, both the shaft in the middle, and all that came out of both sides of the branches: according to the pattern which the Lord had shewn to Moses, so he made the candlestick.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:15
Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.

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.

Numbers 8:4
Now this was the work of the candlestick, it was of beaten gold, both the shaft in the middle, and all that came out of both sides of the branches: according to the pattern which the Lord had shewn to Moses, so he made the candlestick.

Numbers 8:2
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