Leviticus 24:2 (WEB)
“Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
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“For the Jewish feasts on the Sabbath and “the Purification,” and Jewish also are the ceremonies of the lamps, and the fasts of unleavened bread, and the “littoral prayers,” all which institutions and practices are of course foreign from your gods.” — editor's note: See Lev. xxiv. 2; also 2 Chron. xiii. 11. Witsius (Ægyptiaca, ii. 16, 17) compares the Jewish with the Egyptian “ritus lucernarum.”
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Cited together in Ad Nationes I.13.
Parallel passages
Exodus 27:20 and Leviticus 24:2 share the same wording (24 words).