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Exodus 25:6
6olive oil for the lamps; spices for the special oil and for incense with a nice smell;
Exodus 25:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
- New International Version (NIV)olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
- English Standard Version (ESV)oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
- New King James Version (NKJV)oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense;
Context of Exodus 25:6
4blue, purple and red material; good linen and goat's hair; 5red leather from sheep's skins and other good leather; wood from acacia trees; olive oil for the lamps; spices for the special oil and for incense with a nice smell; 7onyx and other jewels to fix on the priest's ephod and his breastpiece. 8You must tell the Israelites to make a special place to be my home. Then I will live among them.
Read all of Exodus 25Exodus 25:6 word by word
שֶׁ֖מֶן לַמָּאֹ֑ר בְּשָׂמִים֙ לְשֶׁ֣מֶן הַמִּשְׁחָ֔ה וְלִקְטֹ֖רֶת הַסַּמִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Exodus 25:6
- Exodus 25:37Then make seven lamps and fix them to the lampstand. Fix them so that they light the space in front of the lampstand.
- Exodus 27:20Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from fresh olives. You will use this oil to make the lamps give light all the time.
- Exodus 40:24He also put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting. He put it on the south side of the Holy Place, opposite the table.
- Exodus 30:23‘Mix together these special spices: 6 kilograms of pure myrrh, 3 kilograms of sweet cinnamon, 3 kilograms of sweet grasses,
Commentaries on Exodus 25:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Oil for the light - This they must have brought with them from Egypt, for they could not get any in the wilderness where there were no olives; but it is likely that this and some other directions refer more to what was to be done when in their fixed and settled residence, than while wandering in the wilderness. Spices - To make a confection for sweet incense, abounded in different parts of these countries.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-9Verses 1-9 Yahweh had redeemed the Israelites from bondage. He had made a covenant with them and had given them laws. He had promised, on condition of their obedience, to accept them as His own “peculiar treasure,” as “a kingdom of priests and an holy nation” Exodus 19:5-6. And now He was ready visibly to testify that He made his abode with them. He claimed to have a dwelling for Himself, which was to be in external form a tent of goats‘ hair Exodus 19:4…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-9These instructions first list the materials that the Israelites could give to build the tabernacle (25:3–7). Next, the instructions describe the tabernacle from the center and move outward. They begin with the ark of the covenant (also called the ark of the Testimony, 25:10–22; 27:9–19). Two items are described later. These are the altar of incense inside the sanctuary and the bronze basin in the courtyard (30:1–10, 17–21). These items appear in the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-401. the Lord spake unto Moses, &c.--The business that chiefly occupied Moses on the mount, whatever other disclosures were made to him there, was in receiving directions about the tabernacle, and they are here recorded as given to him.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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