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Exodus 27:20

Exodus 27:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

pure oil olive beaten: That is, such oil as could be easily expressed from the olives, after they had been bruised in a mortar; and which is much purer than that obtained after the olives are put under the press. ; ; ; ; ;

for the light:

to cause the lamp: Josephus says, that the whole of the seven lamps burned all night; and that in the morning four were extinguished, and three burned the whole of the day. Such might have been the practice in his time; but it appears sufficiently evident from , and , that they were anciently extinguished in the morning.

to burn: Heb. to ascend up

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