Exodus 25
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Exodus 25:23-40

23“Make a table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.

24Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.

25Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.

26Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are.

27The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.

28Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.

29And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.

30Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.

31“Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them.

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

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

34And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.

35One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair—six branches in all.

36The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

37“Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.

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

39A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.

40See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

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