The actual lighting of the lamps (compare the marginal references) was to be done to set forth symbolically the special presence which God had now …

When you light the lamps. —Better, When you set up the lamps .

The golden candlestick was placed against the south wall of…

When you light the lamps. This precept, like many others, is not inserted in its proper place.

Moses again declares what the use of…

Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him
It being his work to light the lamps, though, as Ben Gersom observes, it was not incumbent …

Aaron himself lighted the lamps, thus representing his Divine Master. The Scripture is a light shining in a dark place ([Reference 2 Peter…