And this was the work of the Candlestick, even of gold beaten out with the hammer, both the shaft, and the flower thereof (A)was beaten out with the hammer: [a]according to the pattern which the Lord had showed Moses, so made he the Candlestick.

¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and purify them.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 8:4 And not set together of divers pieces.

This is how the lampstand was made: It was made of hammered gold(A)—from its base to its blossoms. The lampstand was made exactly like the pattern(B) the Lord had shown Moses.

The Setting Apart of the Levites

The Lord said to Moses: “Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.(C)

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