Exodus 25:36-38
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
36 Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.
37 And you shall make the lamps of the [lampstand] to include a [a]seventh one [at the top of the shaft]. [The priests] shall set up the [seven] lamps of it so they may give light in front of it.
38 Its snuffers and its ashtrays shall be of pure gold.
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- Exodus 25:37 Certain Biblical critics in the past doubted the existence of the tabernacle and asserted that the concept of a sevenfold lamp was unknown until hundreds of years later, in Babylonian times (600 b.c.). The first objective evidence to the contrary came to light in W. F. Albright’s excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim, south of Jerusalem, where he found seven-sprouted lamps from about 1200 b.c. The seventh season at Dothan yielded three sevenfold lamps from the period 1200-1400 b.c., showing again that this was not a late idea (Joseph P. Free, Near Eastern Archaeology).
Exodus 25:36-38
New International Version
36 The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.(A)
37 “Then make its seven lamps(B) and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it. 38 Its wick trimmers and trays(C) are to be of pure gold.
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