Read Numbers 8 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraphs:
8:1-4 {p} Arrangement of the seven lamps of the menorah
8:5-22 {s} Cleansing / wave offering of the Levites for the work of the tabernacle
8:23-26 {p} Levites work of the tabernacle from 25 to 50 years
Today’s chapter concludes a multi-chapter Chiastic Structure:
The focus of the central axis is the menorah, the golden lampstand which was in the Holy Place. The original instructions for its design are in Exo 25:31-40.
The tabernacle is a multi-layered Natural Picture prophesying of spiritual truths, and in one interpretation, the Most Holy Place represents the heart, wherein the presence of YHVH dwells; the Holy Place represents the soul: the mind, will, and emotions; and the outer court represents the body.
The seven-branched menorah, representing the light of YHVH which is never to go out, is in the Holy Place. The teaching is that the light of YHVH is to be placed in the soul or mind to illuminate the soul or mind, to be tended morning and night so that it never goes out. What is the light of YHVH?
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psa 119:105
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