Bread of the Presence

23 (A)You shall also make a table of acacia wood, [a]two cubits [b]long and one cubit [c]wide, and one and a half cubits [d]high. 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold (B)border around it. 25 And you shall make for it a rim of a [e]hand width around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it. 26 You shall also make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four legs. 27 The rings shall be close to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28 And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried. 29 You shall also make its (C)dishes, its pans, its jars, and its libation bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. 30 And you shall set (D)the bread of the [f]Presence on the table before Me continually.

The Golden Lampstand

31 (E)Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, its base and its shaft, are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its [g]bulbs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it. 32 (F)Six branches shall go out from its sides; three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its [h]other side. 33 (G)Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a [i]bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the [j]other branch, a [k]bulb and a flower—the same for six branches going out from the lampstand; 34 and (H)on the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its [l]bulbs and its flowers. 35 (I)A [m]bulb shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a [n]bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a [o]bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand. 36 (J)Their [p]bulbs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold. 37 Then you shall make its lamps seven in number; and (K)they shall [q]mount its lamps so as to shed light on the space in front of it. 38 Its tongs and its trays shall be of pure gold. 39 It shall be made from a [r]talent of pure gold, with all these utensils. 40 (L)See that you make them (M)by the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 25:23 About 3 ft. long, 1.5 ft. wide, 2.25 ft. high or 90 cm, 45 cm, and 68 cm
  2. Exodus 25:23 Lit its length
  3. Exodus 25:23 Lit its width
  4. Exodus 25:23 Lit its height
  5. Exodus 25:25 About 3 in. or 7.5 cm
  6. Exodus 25:30 Lit Face
  7. Exodus 25:31 Or calyx
  8. Exodus 25:32 Lit second
  9. Exodus 25:33 Or calyx
  10. Exodus 25:33 Lit one branch
  11. Exodus 25:33 Or calyx
  12. Exodus 25:34 Or calyxes
  13. Exodus 25:35 Or calyx
  14. Exodus 25:35 Or calyx
  15. Exodus 25:35 Or calyx
  16. Exodus 25:36 Or calyxes
  17. Exodus 25:37 Lit raise up
  18. Exodus 25:39 About 75 lb. or 34 kg

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