Exo. 27:20

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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.

Exod 39:37; Lev 24:2-4; Judg 9:9; Ps 23:5; Zech 4:11-14; Rev 11:4

for the light.

Exo 25:31-37

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 Exo 30:8, and 1 Sa 3:3, that they were anciently extinguished in the morning. to burn. Heb. to ascend up.