Exodus 27:20

And thou shall command the children of Israel,.... Here begins a new section of the law; an account being given of the tabernacle, and its parts, and the furniture thereof, next the several parts of…

Pure oil olive beaten - The oil was to be of the best kind. It is called beaten, because it was obtained by merely bruising the olives in a mortar or mill, without the application of heat. The finest…

Pure oil olive beaten - That is, such oil as could easily be expressed from the olives after they had been bruised in a mortar; the mother drop, as it is called, which drops out of itself as soon as…

We read of the candlestick in the twenty-fifth chapter; here is an order given for the keeping of the lamps constantly burning in it, else it was useless; in every candlestick there should be a…

And thou, thou shalt, &c. the emph. pron. marks the beginning of a new section (Exo 28:1; Exo 30:23; Exo 31:13; Num 1:50).

pure clear: LXX. ἄτρυγον (-without lees, clarified") καθαρόν.

beaten Exo…