Leviticus 24:4

Easy-to-Read Version

Aaron must always keep the lamps burning on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord .

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure menorah before the LORD continually.

King James Version
He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the Lord continually.

Lexham English Bible
On the pure golden lampstand he shall arrange for the lamps before Yahweh continually.

New Century Version
Aaron must always keep the lamps burning on the lampstands of pure gold before the Lord .

New English Translation
On the ceremonially pure lampstand he must arrange the lamps before the Lord continually.

Amplified Bible
"He shall keep the lamps burning on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

New American Standard Bible
"He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He shall dresse the lampes vpon the pure Candlesticke before the Lorde perpetually.

Legacy Standard Bible
He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually.

Complete Jewish Bible
He is always to keep in order the lamps on the pure menorah before Adonai .

Darby Translation
Upon the pure candlestick shall he arrange the lamps before Jehovah continually.

English Standard Version
He shall arrange the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly.

George Lamsa Translation
He shall set the lamps in order upon the large candlestick before the LORD continually.

Good News Translation
Aaron shall take care of the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold and must see that they burn regularly in the Lord 's presence.

Christian Standard Bible®
He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in the Lord’s presence.

Literal Translation
He shall arrange the lamps on the pure lampstand before Jehovah continually.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The lapes shal he dresse vpon the pure candilsticke before the LORDE perpetually.

American Standard Version
He shall keep in order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before Jehovah continually.

Bible in Basic English
Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He shall dresse the lampes vpon ye pure candlesticke before ye Lord perpetually.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.

King James Version (1611)
He shall order the lampes vpon the pure Candlesticke before the Lord continually.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall burn the lamps on the pure lamp-stand before the Lord till the morrow.

English Revised Version
He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.

Berean Standard Bible
He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
tho schulen be set euere on a clenneste candilstike in the siyt of the Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
by the pure candlestick he doth arrange the lights before Jehovah continually.

Update Bible Version
He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure candlestick before Yahweh continually.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.

World English Bible
He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure lampstand before Yahweh continually.

New King James Version
He shall be in charge of the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

New Living Translation
Aaron and the priests must tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand continually in the Lord 's presence.

New Life Bible
He will take care of the lamps on the pure gold lamp-stand before the Lord all the time.

New Revised Standard
He shall set up the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Upon the pure lampstand, shall he order the lamps, - before Yahweh, continually.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord continually.

Revised Standard Version
He shall keep the lamps in order upon the lampstand of pure gold before the LORD continually.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord said to Moses, ² "Command the Israelites to bring to you pure oil from crushed olives. That oil is for the lamps that must burn without stopping. ³ Aaron will keep the light burning in the Meeting Tent before the Lord from evening until morning. This light will be outside the curtain that hangs in front of the Box that holds the Agreement. This law will continue forever. ⁴ Aaron must always keep the lamps burning on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord . ⁵ "Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves with it. Use 16 cups of flour for each loaf. ⁶ Put them in two rows on the golden table before the Lord . Six loaves will be in each row. ⁷ Put pure frankincense on each row. This will help the Lord remember the gift. ⁸ Every Sabbath day Aaron will put the bread in order before the Lord . This must be done forever. This agreement with the Israelites will continue forever. ⁹ That bread will belong to Aaron and his sons. They will eat the bread in a holy place, because that bread is one of the special gifts to the Lord . It is Aaron's share forever."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the pure: Exodus 25:31-39, Exodus 31:8, Exodus 37:17-24, Exodus 39:37, Numbers 3:31, Numbers 4:9, 1 Kings 7:49, 1 Chronicles 28:15, Jeremiah 52:19, Zechariah 4:2, Zechariah 4:3, Zechariah 4:11-14, Hebrews 9:2, Revelation 1:20, Revelation 2:1, Revelation 2:5, Revelation 11:4

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." Abram built an altar to honor the Lord who appeared to him there.

Genesis 24:20
So Rebekah quickly poured all the water from her jar into the drinking trough for the camels. Then she ran to the well to get more water, and she gave water to all the camels.

Genesis 24:23
The servant asked, "Who is your father? And is there a place in your father's house for me and my men to sleep?"

Genesis 28:2
So leave this place and go to Paddan Aram. Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father. Laban, your mother's brother, lives there. Marry one of his daughters.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall order the lamps on the pure candlestick,.... So called, as Jarchi suggests, for these two reasons, partly because it was made of pure gold, and partly because it was to be kept pure and clean, and free from ashes, by the priest; see Exodus 25:31;

before the Lord continually; which both respects the situation of the candlestick, and the work about it, which Aaron was to do continually before and in the presence of the Lord. Jarchi thinks this ordering respects the measure of oil for every night, which he says, according to the wise men, was half a log for every lamp, which was about a quarter of a pint of oil.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The oil for the lamps of the tabernacle and the meal for the showbread were to be offerings from the Congregation, like the meal for the Pentecostal loaves, Leviticus 23:17. It appears that the responsibility of keeping up the lights rested on the high priest, but the actual service might be performed, on ordinary occasions, by the common priests. Compare margin reference.

Leviticus 24:5

Each cake or loaf of unleavened bread Leviticus 2:11 was to contain about six pounds and a quarter (see Exodus 29:40 note) of fine flour. The material was the same, both in quality and in quantity, with that of each one of the wave-loaves of Pentecost Leviticus 23:17. In the service of the temple the preparation and arrangement of the cakes was committed to the Levites 1Ch 9:32; 1 Chronicles 23:29; 2 Chronicles 13:11.

Leviticus 24:6

Two rows, six on a row - Rather, two piles, six in a pile. On the table, see Exodus 25:23-30.

Leviticus 24:7

The frankincense as a memorial (like the handful of the meat-offering, Leviticus 2:2), was most likely cast upon the altar-fire as “an offering made by fire unto the Lord,” when the bread was removed from the table on the Sabbath-day Leviticus 24:8; 1 Samuel 21:6. The frankincense was put into small gold cups, one of which was placed upon each pile of bread. (See Exodus 25:23-30 note.)

Leviticus 24:8

Being taken from the children of Israel - Each cake represented the offering of a tribe.

Leviticus 24:9

See Leviticus 2:3 note. It could have been only by a stretch of the law that Ahimelech gave a portion of the showbread to David and his men, on the ground that they were free from ceremonial defilement. 1 Samuel 21:4-6; Matthew 12:4.

The showbread was a true meat-offering (see Exodus 25:29). The special form in which it was offered, especially in its being brought into the tabernacle and in its consisting of twelve loaves, distinguish it as an offering made on behalf of the nation.