(6) Regulations Concerning the Lampstand and the Showbread
(6) Regulations Concerning the Lampstand and the Showbread Leviticus 24:2-4 “ Command the children of Israel to bring to you pure olive oil, pressed to light the lamps continually. Aaron shall keep the lamps set before the LORD from evening until morning, outside the curtain of the ark of the covenant in the tabernacle. This is a perpetual ordinance for your generations. He shall keep the lamps on the pure lampstand before the LORD always. ” The first part, spanning verses 1 – 4, concerns the eternal ordinances regarding the lamps inside the tabernacle. The tabernacle was the place of God's presence. It was divided into the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. In the Holy Place were the lampstand, the table of showbread, and the altar of incense, all made of pure gold; in the Most Holy Place, there was the Ark of the Covenant, upon which were the cherubim and the Mercy Seat. First, it was commanded that the lamp in the Holy Place must not be extinguished. In the Bible, oil sig...