Exodus 25:23–37

The Table

25:23–29pp—Ex 37:10–16

²³“Make a table^l of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.^{d 24}Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it. ²⁵Also make around it a rim a handbreadth^e 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^m 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.^{n 30}Put the bread of the Presence^o on this table to be before me at all times.

The Lampstand

25:31–39pp—Ex 37:17–24

³¹“Make a lampstand^p 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.^q

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