Exodus 30:8

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

et quando collocabit eas ad vesperum, uret thymiama sempiternum coram Domino in generationes vestras.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
pro quo ait Rachel : Comparavit me Deus cum sorore mea, et invalui : vocavitque eum Nephthali.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
et quando collocabit eas ad vesperum, uret thymiama sempiternum coram Domino in generationes vestras.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lighteth: or, setteth up, Heb. causeth to ascend

at even: Heb. between the two evens. Exodus 12:6, *marg.

a perpetual: Romans 8:34, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 9:24

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:37 - they shall Exodus 27:20 - to cause the lamp Exodus 27:21 - Aaron Exodus 29:42 - a continual Exodus 30:1 - an altar Leviticus 16:13 - And he Numbers 7:14 - incense Deuteronomy 33:10 - they shall put incense 1 Samuel 3:3 - the lamp 2 Chronicles 26:18 - to the priests Song of Solomon 4:6 - the mountain Ezekiel 41:22 - before Luke 1:9 - his Hebrews 9:6 - the priests

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it,.... In the evening the priest went into the holy place to light the lamps that were gone out, :- at the same time he burnt incense on the altar; and as the daily sacrifice was offered up morning and evening, so the incense was burnt every morning and evening, and much about the same time: the Jews say t, that the incense of the morning was offered between the blood (i.e. the sprinkling of the blood of the daily sacrifice) and the members, or the laying of the pieces on the altar; and the incense of the evening was between the pieces and the drink offering: and with this Philo agrees u, who says, twice every day most fragrant odours were offered, at the sun rising and setting, before the morning and after the evening sacrifice:

a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations; thus Christ's mediation and intercession is constant and continual; as his sacrifice continually takes away the sin of the world, in which it was the antitype of the daily sacrifice; so his blood continually speaks for peace and pardon, and every blessing of grace for his people, in which it is the antitype of the morning and evening incense; for he ever lives to make intercession; and so the prayers of the saints are directed to God both morning and evening, and they cease not praying as long as they live.

t Misn. Yoma, c. 3. sect. 4. u De Victimis, p. 836.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 37:25-28; Exodus 40:26-27. The altar of incense was to be a casing of boards of shittim wood Exodus 25:5, Exodus 25:18 inches square and three feet in height (taking the cubit as 18 inches), entirely covered with plates of gold. Four “horns” were to project upward at the corners like those of the altar of burnt-offering Exodus 27:2. A crown or moulding of gold was to run round the top. On each of two opposite sides there was to be a gold ring through which the staves were to be put when it was moved from place to place.

Exodus 30:4

By the two corners thereof - Not corners. See the margin. The sense appears to be: And two gold rings shalt thou make for it under its moulding; on its two sides shalt thou make them (i. e. one ring on each side).

Exodus 30:6

The place for the altar of incense was outside the veil, opposite to the ark of the covenant and between the candlestick on the south side and the showbread table on the north Exodus 40:22-24. It appears to have been regarded as having a more intimate connection with the holy of holies than the other things in the holy place; and the mention of the mercy-seat in this verse, if we associate with it the significance of incense as figuring the prayers of the Lord’s people Psalms 141:2; Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3-4, seems to furnish additional pound for an inference that the incense altar took precedence of the table of showbread and the candlestick.

Exodus 30:7

The lamps - See Exodus 25:37.

Exodus 30:7-8

The offering of the incense accompanied that of the morning and evening sacrifice. The two forms of offering symbolized the spirit of man reaching after communion with Yahweh, both in act and utterance. See Psalms 141:2.

Exodus 30:9

By this regulation, the symbolism of the altar of incense was kept free from ambiguity. atonement was made by means of the victim on the brazen altar in the court ontside; the prayers of the reconciled worshippers had their type within the tabernacle.

Exodus 30:10

See the marginal references.