Numbers 8:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ And Aaron did so; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ 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)

³ 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

³ Aaron did so. He set up its lamps in front of the lampstand as the LORD commanded Moses.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ 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

³ 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 lampstand of pure gold and its lamps with the lamps set 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

“Say to Aaron, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.”

Numbers 8:4

And this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold; from its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Matthew 5:15

Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.