2"Speak to Aaron and say to him, 'When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.' "


In Context

1 The Lord said to Moses,

2 "Speak to Aaron and say to him, 'When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.' "

3 Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

4 This is how the lampstand was made: It was made of hammered gold-from its base to its blossoms. The lampstand was made exactly like the pattern the Lord had shown Moses.

Numbers 8:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:2Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:2Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the leaves of proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:2Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:2Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2Speak to Aaron, and say to him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2|Speak to Aaron, and tell him, 'When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.'|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2'Speak unto Aaron, and thou hast said unto him, In thy causing the lights to go up, over-against the face of the candlestick do the seven lights give light.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:2Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.