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 …

He lighted. —Better, he set up.

And Aaron did so, he lighted the lamps thereof over against
the candlestick
As God ha…

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