8 He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the Lord for the generations to come.
8 And when Aaron lighteth
8 and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations.
8 and again in the evening as he prepares the lamps for lighting, so that there will always be incense burning before God, generation after generation.
8 And when Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
8 And each evening when he lights the lamps, he must again burn incense in the Lord 's presence. This must be done from generation to generation.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 30:8
Commentary on Exodus 30:1-10
(Read Exodus 30:1-10)
The altar of incense represented the Son of God in his human nature, and the incense burned thereon typified his pleading for his people. The continual intercession of Christ was represented by the daily burning of incense thereon, morning and evening. Once every year the blood of the atonement was to be applied to it, denoting that the intercession of Christ has all its virtue from his sufferings on earth, and that we need no other sacrifice or intercessor but Christ alone.