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This is the construction of the menorah: hammered gold,(A) from its base to its bowls[a] it was hammered; according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the menorah.

Purification of the Levites. The Lord said to Moses: Take the Levites from among the Israelites and cleanse them.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 8:4 Bowls: lit., “blossom,” a designation for the blossom-shaped cups holding the lamps of the menorah.
  2. 8:6 Cleanse them: in the language of the Pentateuch only the priests were “consecrated,” that is, made sacred or set aside for the Lord, in an elaborate ceremony described in Ex 29 and in this chapter. The Levites were “cleansed,” that is, made ritually clean for their special work.

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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