Exodus 37:9-20

9The cherubim spread out their wings upward, covering and protecting the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were [looking downward] toward the mercy seat.

10Bezalel made the table [for the bread] of acacia wood; it was two cubits long, a cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.

11He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a border of gold for it all around [its top].

12He made a rim for it [just under the top] a hand width wide all around, and a border of gold around its rim.

13He cast four rings of gold for it and fastened the rings to the four corners that were at its four legs.

14Close by the rim were the rings, the holders for the poles [to pass through] to carry the table.

15Bezalel made the carrying poles of acacia wood to carry the table and overlaid them with gold.

16He made the utensils which were to be on the table, its dishes and its pans [for bread], its bowls and its jars for pouring drink offerings, of pure gold.

17Then he made the lampstand (menorah) of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work, its base and its [center] shaft; its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers were all of one piece with it.

18There were six branches coming out of the sides of the lampstand, three branches from one side of the center shaft and three branches from the other side of it;

19three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a calyx and a flower in one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a calyx and a flower in the opposite branch—so for the six branches coming out of the center shaft of the lampstand.

20On the center shaft of the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with calyxes and flowers [one at the top];