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pure oil olive beaten: That is, such oil as could be easily expressed from the olives, after they had been bruised in a mortar; and which is much purer than that obtained after the olives are put under the press. Exo 39:37; Lev 24:2-4; Jdg 9:9; Psa 23:5; Zec 4:11-14; Rev 11:4
for the light: Exo 25:31-37
to cause the lamp: Josephus says, that the whole of the seven lamps burned all night; and that in the morning four were extinguished, and three burned the whole of the day. Such might have been the practice in his time; but it appears sufficiently evident from Exo 30:8, and 1Sa 3:3, that they were anciently extinguished in the morning.
to burn: Heb. to ascend up