Exo 25:31-39, 27:20-21, Lev 24:2-4 | ESV | STEP | You shall make a lampstand of pure gold . The lampstand shall be made of hammered work : its base , its stem , its cups , its calyxes , and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

Exodus 25:31-39

The Golden Lampstand

31 ^a“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it. 32 And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; 33 three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 34 And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, 35 and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand. 36 Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold. 37 You shall make seven lamps for it. And the lamps ^bshall be set up so as ^cto give light on the space in front of it. 38 Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold. 39 It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms} of pure gold.

Exodus 27:20-21

Oil for the Lamp

20 ^e“You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn. 21 ^fIn the tent of meeting, ^goutside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.

Leviticus 24:2-4

2 “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. 3 Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 4 He shall arrange the lamps on the ^hlampstand of pure gold ^{▼▼Hebrew the pure lampstand} before the Lord regularly.