Directions Relating to the Candlestick. An account of the candlestick (really a lampstand) is contained in Exodus 25:31-40 *.
Numbers 8:2. lightest: render as in mg. (and so in Numbers 8:3). give light. candlestick: i.e. illuminate the opposite (N.) wall of the Holy Place, the candlestick being on the S. side. flowers: flower-like ornaments.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.
3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.