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Exodus 25:39
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It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.
Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
It will be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these pieces of equipment.
Use seventy-five pounds of pure gold to make the lampstand and everything with it.
About seventy-five pounds of pure gold is to be used for it and for all these utensils.
"It shall be made from a talent (50-80 lbs.) of pure gold, including all these utensils.
"It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.
Of a talent of fine gold shalt thou make it with all these instruments.
It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.
The menorah and its utensils are to be made of sixty-six pounds of pure gold.
Of a talent of pure gold shall they make it, with all these utensils.
Use 75 pounds of pure gold to make the lampstand and the things to be used with it.
It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent of pure gold.
Of a talent of pure gold shall you make it, with all these vessels.
Use seventy-five pounds of pure gold to make the lampstand and all this equipment.
The lampstand with all these utensils is to be made from seventy-five pounds of pure gold.
One shall make it of a talent of pure gold, with all these vessels.
Out of an hundreth pounde weight of pure golde shalt thou make it, with all this apparell.
Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels.
A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.
Of a talent of fine gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels.
Of a talent of pure gold shall hee make it, with all these vessels.
All these articles shall be a talent of pure gold.
Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels.
The lampstand and all these utensils shall be made from a talent of pure gold.
Al the weiyt of the candilstike with alle hise vesselis schal haue a talent of clennest gold.
of a talent of pure gold he doth make it, with all these vessels.
Of a talent of pure gold it shall be made, with all these vessels.
[Of] a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.
It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.
You will need 75 pounds of pure gold for the lampstand and its accessories.
Make it and all the objects for it out of a piece of gold about half the weight of a man.
It, and all these utensils, shall be made from a talent of pure gold.
With a talent of pure gold, shall he make it, with all these vessels,
The whole weight of the candlestick, with all the furniture thereof, shall be a talent of the purest gold.
Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these utensils.
"Use a seventy-five-pound brick of pure gold to make the Lampstand and its accessories. Study the design you were given on the mountain and make everything accordingly."
"It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.
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talent: Exodus 37:24, Zechariah 5:7
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. The common talent weighed sixty pounds, but the sacred talent was double, and weighed one hundred and twenty pounds, as says Jarchi, and so Ben Melech: a talent of gold amounted to 5067 pounds, three shillings and ten pence of our money, according to Bishop Cumberland d.
(Assuming a troy weight of 12 ounces to a pound, and an ounce of gold worth $400 U.S., than a talent would be worth about $600,000. Editor.)
d Of Scripture Weights and Measures, p. 121.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Exodus 25:31
A candlestick of pure gold - (Compare Exodus 37:17-24.) A lampstand rather than a candlestick. Its purpose was to support seven oil-lamps. Its height appears to have been about three feet, and its width two feet. The original foot was lost or stolen when the candlestick was taken out of the temple, and the pedestal in the sculpture was added by some Roman artist to set off the trophy.
His shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers - Or, its base, its stem, its flower cups, its knobs, and its lilies.
Exodus 25:33
Three bowls made like unto almonds - Three cups of almond flowers. These appear to be the cups in immediate contact with the knobs as shown in the sculpture.
A flower - A lily; and this rendering well agrees with the sculpture.
The candlestick - Here, and in the two following verses, the word appears to denote “the stem,” as the essential part of the candlestick. It would seem from Exodus 25:33-35 that the ornamentation of the candlestick consisted of uniform members, each comprising a series of an almond flower, a knob and a lily; that the stem comprised four of these members; that each pair of branches was united to the stem at one of the knobs; and that each branch comprised three members. In comparing the description in the text with the sculptured figure, allowance must be made for some deviation in the sculptor’s copy.
Exodus 25:37
Seven lamps - These lamps were probably like those used by the Egyptian and other nations, shallow covered vessels more or less of an oval form, with a mouth at one end from which the wick protruded. The candlestick was placed on the south side of the holy place Exodus 26:35, with the line of lamps parallel with the wall, or, according to Josephus, somewhat obliquely. If the wick-mouths of the lamps were turned outwards, they would give light over against the candlestick; that is, toward the north side (see Numbers 8:2).
Light was of necessity required in the tabernacle, and wherever light is used in ceremonial observance, it may of course be taken in a general way as a figure of the Light of Truth; but in the sanctuary of the covenanted people, it must plainly have been understood as expressly significant that the number of the lamps (seven) agreed with the number of the covenant. The covenant of Yahweh was essentially a covenant of light.
They shall light - See the margin and the note at Leviticus 1:9.
Exodus 25:38
The tongs - Used to trim and adjust the wicks. (Compare Isaiah 6:6.)
The snuff-dishes - These were shallow vessels used to receive the burnt fragments of wick removed by the tongs. The same Hebrew word is translated, in accordance with its connection, “fire pans,” Exodus 27:3; Exodus 38:3; and “censers,” Numbers 4:14; Numbers 16:6.
Exodus 25:39
A talent of pure gold - about 94 lbs.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 25:39. Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. — That is, a talent of gold in weight was used in making the candlestick, and the different vessels and instruments which belonged to it. According to Bishop Cumberland, a talent was three thousand shekels. As the Israelites brought each half a shekel, Exodus 38:26, so that one hundred talents, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, were contributed by six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty persons; by halving the number of the Israelites, he finds they contributed three hundred and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels in all. Now, as we find that this number of shekels made one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels over, if we subtract one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, the odd shekels, from three hundred and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, we shall have for a remainder three hundred thousand, the number of shekels in one hundred talents: and if this remainder be divided by one hundred, the number of talents, it quotes three thousand, the number of shekels in each talent. A silver shekel of the sanctuary, being equal, according to Dr. Prideaux, to three shillings English, three thousand such shekels will amount to four hundred and fifty pounds sterling; and, reckoning gold to silver as fifteen to one, a talent of gold will amount to six thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds sterling: to which add two hundred and sixty-three pounds for the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, at three shillings each, and it makes a total of seven thousand and thirteen pounds, which immense sum was expended on the candlestick and its furniture. It is no wonder, then, (if the candlestick in the second temple was equal in value to that in the ancient tabernacle,) that Titus should think it of sufficient consequence to be one of the articles, with the golden table, and silver trumpets, that should be employed to grace his triumph. Their intrinsic worth was a matter of no consequence to Him whose are the silver and gold, the earth and its fulness; they had accomplished their design, and were of no farther use, either in the kingdom of providence, or the kingdom of grace. Exodus 25:31, and "Exodus 38:24".
