11 Bible Verses about Candles
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Neither light they a lamp, and place it under the measure; but upon the lampstand, and it giveth light to all that are in the house.
Ye, are the light of the world: it is impossible for a city to be hid, on the top of a mountain, lying.
In like manner, let your light shine before men, - that they may see your good works, - and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
For, thou, wast my lamp, O Yahweh, - and, Yahweh, enlightened my darkness;
And, the sea, didst thou cleave asunder before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea, on dry ground, - whereas, their pursuers, thou didst cast into the depths like a stone, into the mighty waters, And, in a pillar of cloud, didst thou lead them, by day, - and in a pillar of fire, by night, to light up for them the way wherein they should go. And, upon Mount Sinai, camest thou down, and spakest with them out of the heavens, - and gavest them just regulations, and faithful laws, good statutes and commandments.
For, thou, didst light up my lamp, Yahweh my God, enlightened my darkness;
No one, having lighted, a lamp, into a covered place, a putteth it, nor, under the measure; but upon the lampstand, that they who enter may see, the light. The lamp of thy body, is thine eye: Whensoever, thine eye, may be, single, even the whole of thy body, is, lighted up; but, whensoever it may be, useless, even thy body, is darkened. Be looking to it, therefore, lest, the light that is in thee, be, darkness.
So it came to pass when, the sun, had gone in, and Ira thick darkness, had come on, that lo there was a smoking hearth and torch of fire, which passed through between these pieces.
And thou shalt make a lampstand of pure gold, of beaten work, shall the lampstand be made, even its base and its shaft its cups, its apples, and its blossoms of the same, shall be: with, six branches, coming out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand, out the one side thereof, and three branches of the lampstand, out of the other side thereof: three cups like almond-flowers, in the one branch apple and blossom, and thine cups like almond-flowers in the other branch apple and blossom, so, for the six branches, coming out of the lampstand.read more.
And in the lampstand itself, four cups, - like almond-flowers - its apples, and its blossoms; and an apple under two branches of the same, and, another apple, under two other branches of the same, and another apple under two other branches, of the same, - for the six branches, coming out of the lampstand: their apples and their branches, of the same, shall be, - all of it, of one beaten work, of pure gold. And thou shalt make the lamps thereof seven, and one shall light up its lamps, and it shall give light, over against the face thereof. And, its snuffers, and its snuff-trays of pure gold. With a talent of pure gold, shall he make it, with all these vessels, And see thou and make them, by the pattern of them, which thou wast caused to behold in the mount
Thou thyself, therefore, shalt command the sons of Israel that they bring unto thee - pure, beaten olive-oil, for giving light, - that the lamp may lift up its flame continually.
