Another interpretation (of Numb. 8:2 cont.): IN FRONT OF THE MENORAH. Flesh and blood lights a lamp from a burning lamp. Could one ever light a lamp from the darkness? The Holy One, however, did make a lamp give light from the darkness, as stated (in Gen. 1:2): WITH DARKNESS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP. What is written after that (in vs. 3)? THEN GOD SAID: LET THERE BE LIGHT. Since I have brought light out of the darkness, do I have need for your light? So why did he say to light lamps? Simply for the sake of your exaltation (rt.: 'LH), (in the words of Exod. 27:20) TO SET UP (rt.: 'LH) AN EVERBURNING LAMP.