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Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.

Beaten for the light. — Ministers must beat their brains, and bend their utmost endeavours to "give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, and to guide their feet into the way of peace": as that "burning and shining light," the Baptist, did. Luke 1:79

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Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: [it shall be] a statute for ever in your generations.

From the evening unto the morning. — In the morning it went out. 1 Samuel 3:3

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

Upon the pure candlestick. — Pure, because daily purified by the priests: so must our consciences be from dead works by daily repentance.

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And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

Twelve cakes. — See Trapp on " Matthew 12:4 "

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And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.

Six on a row. — One by another, not one upon another, as they are commonly painted.

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And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

On the bread. — Or, Instead of the bread.

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Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

Every Sabbath. — So must the bread of life be every Sabbath at least set before the saints.

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And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it [is] most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.

Made by fire. — The frankincense laid upon them, was.

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