Exodus 37:16-26

16 Out of pure gold he made the utensils for the Table: its plates, bowls, jars, and jugs used for pouring.
17 He made a Lampstand of pure hammered gold, making its stem and branches, cups, calyxes, and petals all of one piece.
18 It had six branches, three from one side and three from the other;
19 three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyxes and petals on one branch, three on the next, and so on - the same for all six branches.
20 On the main stem of the Lampstand, there were four cups shaped like almonds, with calyxes and petals,
21 a calyx extending from under each pair of the six branches.
22 The entire Lampstand with its calyxes and stems was fashioned from one piece of hammered pure gold.
23 He made seven of these lamps with their candle snuffers, all out of pure gold.
24 He used a seventy-five-pound brick of pure gold to make the Lampstand and its accessories.
25 He made an Altar for burning incense from acacia wood. He made it a foot and a half square and three feet high, with its horns of one piece with it.
26 He covered it with a veneer of pure gold, its top, sides, and horns, and made a gold molding around it
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