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Setting Up the Tabernacle

Exodus 40:25

In 11 translations

BSB
and set up the lamps before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
KJV
And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
WEB
He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
ASV
And he lighted the lamps before Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
LSV
and causes the lamps to go up before YHWH, as YHWH has commanded Moses.
YLT
and causeth the lamps to go up before Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
DBY
And he lighted the lamps before Jehovah; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
DRC40:23
Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord.
GNV
And he lighted the lampes before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
JPS
And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
LXXE
And he put on it its lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיַּ֥עַל הַנֵּרֹ֖ת לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐπέθηκε τοὺς λύχνους αὐτῆς ἔναντι Κυρίου, ὃν τρόπον συνέταξε Κύριος τῷ Μωυσῇ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 25:37Make seven lamps and set them up on the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.
  • Exodus 40:4Then bring in the table and set out its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its lamps.
  • Revelation 4:5From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits of God.

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 40:23 in some Bibles
  • 40:25 in most Bibles
  • Mapping unverified: STEPBible TVTMS has rules for this verse in this edition's tradition that would place it elsewhere, but their tests did not match this edition.

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