Exodus 25
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Exodus 25:23-40

23“You are to make a table of acacia wood; its length is to be three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches.

24You are to overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it.

25You are to make a surrounding frame for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

26You are to make four rings of gold for it and attach the rings at the four corners where its four legs are.

27The rings are to be close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table.

28You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

29You are to make its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; you are to make them of pure gold.

30You are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.

31“You are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece.

32Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it.

33Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on the next branch, and the same for the six branches extending from the lampstand.

34On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms,

35with a bud under the first two branches from it, and a bud under the next two branches from it, and a bud under the third two branches from it, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand.

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

37“You are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it.

38Its trimmers and its trays are to be of pure gold.

39About seventy-five pounds of pure gold is to be used for it and for all these utensils.

40Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.

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