Instructions for Making a Table and a Lampstand
23 "And you will make a table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height.
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And you will overlay it [with] pure gold, and you will make for it a gold molding all around.
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And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around.
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And you will make four gold rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners where its four {legs} [are].
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The rings will be near the rim as {holders} for poles to carry the table.
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And you will make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them [with] gold, and the table will be carried with them.
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And you will make its plates and its ladles and its pitchers and its bowls with which [libations] will be poured; of pure gold you will make them.
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And you will put on the table [the] bread of presence [to be] before me continually.
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"And you will make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand will be made of hammered work--its base and its branch, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms will be from it.
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And six branches [will be] going out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side.
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Three almond-flower cups [will be] on the one branch [with] a bud and a blossom, and three almond-flower cups [will be] on the one branch [with] a bud and a blossom--likewise for the six branches going out from the lampstand.
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And on the lampstand [will be] four almond-flower cups, [with] its buds and its blossoms.
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And a bud [will be] under the two branches [that come] from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, [likewise] for the six branches coming out from the lampstand.
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Their buds and their branches will be from it, all of it one [piece] of pure gold hammered work.
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And you will make its seven lamps, and its lamps will be set up, and it will give light {in the space in front of it}.
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And its snuffers and its fire pans [will be] pure gold.
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It will be made [from] a talent of pure gold, with all these [pieces of] equipment.
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And see and make [all] according to their pattern, which you were shown in the mountain.