Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

continual sacred light

continual_sacred_light

A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


jewish christian

  • Exodus Footnotes / Chapter 26 / Footnotes / Chapter 27; lines 1672-1718 confidence: high

    The children of Israel are to bring pure beaten olive oil for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

    Pure beaten olive oil is required so that a lamp burns continually, with Aaron and his sons keeping it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh.

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