Exodus 25:31-40
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. 32And 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; 33three 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. 34And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, 35and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand. 36Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold. 37You 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. 38Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold. 39It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of pure gold. 40And esee that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain. 1 Chronicles 28:12
12and the plan of all that he had in mind for the courts of the house of the Lord, all the surrounding chambers, fthe treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for dedicated gifts;1 Chronicles 28:19
19“All this he made clear to me in writing from the hand of the Lord, gall the work to be done according to the plan.”Hebrews 8:5
5They serve ha copy and ishadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, j“See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”
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