Exodus 25:23-40

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.

24 And you will overlay it [with] pure gold, and you will make for it a gold molding all around.

25 And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around.

26 And you will make four gold rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners where its four {legs} [are].

27 The rings will be near the rim as {holders} for poles to carry the table.

28 And you will make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them [with] gold, and the table will be carried with them.

29 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.

30 And you will put on the table [the] bread of presence [to be] before me continually.

31 "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.

32 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.

33 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.

34 And on the lampstand [will be] four almond-flower cups, [with] its buds and its blossoms.

35 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.

36 Their buds and their branches will be from it, all of it one [piece] of pure gold hammered work.

37 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}.

38 And its snuffers and its fire pans [will be] pure gold.

39 It will be made [from] a talent of pure gold, with all these [pieces of] equipment.

40 And see and make [all] according to their pattern, which you were shown in the mountain.

Exodus 25:23-40 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 25

In this chapter an order is given for a freewill offering towards various things for the worship and service of God, and the materials to be offered, which would be useful and acceptable, are mentioned particularly, Ex 25:1-7, as also another order to build a sanctuary for God, after a model that he would give, Ex 25:8,9, and, an ark to put in the law on tables of stone, the fashion of which, and the various things belonging to it, are described, Ex 25:10-16, and a mercy seat with cherubim on it to be set over the ark, where the Lord promises to meet Moses and commune with him, Ex 25:17-22 and a table with various appurtenances to it to place the shewbread on, Ex 25:23-30 and a candlestick of gold, whose parts are described, and all the instruments relative to it, Ex 25:31-40.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "feet"
• [b]. Literally "houses"
• [c]. Or "bowls"
• [d]. Or "reed"
• [e]. Literally "on beyond its face"