Numbers 8:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Aaron did so; he set up its lamps in front of the lampstand, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps of the lampstand to give light in front of it, as the Lord commanded Moses.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof so as to give light in front of the candlestick, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Common English Bible

Aaron did so. He set up its lamps in front of the lampstand as the LORD commanded Moses.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Aaron did so, and he placed the lamps on the lampstand, just as the Lord had instructed Moses.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Aaron did so: and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Numbers 8:3 Cross References

Exodus 39:37

the pure lampstand with its lamps set on it and all its utensils and the oil for the light;

Exodus 40:25

and set up the lamps before the Lord as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Numbers 8:2

“Speak to Aaron and say to him: When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.”

Numbers 8:4

Now this was how the lampstand was made, out of hammered work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern that the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Matthew 5:15

People do not light a lamp and put it under the bushel basket; rather, they put it on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.