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New King James Version

Exodus 25:34

On the lampstand itself four bowls shall be made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flower.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Almond;   Candlestick;   Gold;   Tabernacle;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Candlestick;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Candlestick;   Tabernacle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Flowers;   Lamp;   Tabernacle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Almond;   Bowl;   Candlestick;   Knop;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Almond Tree;   Candlestick;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Almond;   Cup;   Flowers;   Knob;   Lamps, Lighting, Lampstand;   Menorah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Almond;   Colours;   Leviticus;   Numbers, Book of;   Tabernacle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Censer;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Almond, Almond Tree;   Bowl;   Candlestick;   Knops;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Almond tree;   Candlestick;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Almond Tree;   ;   Candlestick,;   Knop,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Almond Tree;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Tabernacle, the;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Candlestick, the Golden;   Tabernacle;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Almond tree;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sar Shalom ben Boaz;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and in the menorah four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
King James Version
And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
Lexham English Bible
And on the lampstand will be four almond-flower cups, with its buds and its blossoms.
New Century Version
And there must be four more cups made like almond flowers on the lampstand itself. These cups must also have buds and petals.
New English Translation
On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms,
Amplified Bible
and in the [center shaft of the] lampstand [you shall make] four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and their flowers.
New American Standard Bible
and on the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in the shaft of the Candlesticke shalbe foure boules like vnto almondes, his knops & his floures.
Legacy Standard Bible
and in the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers.
Contemporary English Version
and four on the stem.
Complete Jewish Bible
On the central shaft of the menorah are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its ring of outer leaves and petals.
Darby Translation
And in the lamp-stand four cups shaped like almonds, its knobs and its flowers;
Easy-to-Read Version
Make four more flowers for the lampstand. These flowers must be made like almond flowers with buds and petals.
English Standard Version
And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers,
George Lamsa Translation
And on the candlestick shall be four bowls made like almonds, with their buds and flowers.
Good News Translation
The shaft of the lampstand is to have four decorative flowers shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.
Christian Standard Bible®
There are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms on the lampstand shaft along with its buds and petals.
Literal Translation
And on the lampstand shall be four almond like calyxes, each with its knobs and its blossoms;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the shaft of the candilsticke it self shal haue foure cuppes, knoppes and floures,
American Standard Version
and in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;
Bible in Basic English
And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the candelsticke it selfe [there shalbe] foure bolles like vnto almondes, with their knoppes and flowres.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.
King James Version (1611)
And in the candlesticke shall bee foure bowles made like vnto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and in the candlestick four bowls fashioned like almonds, in each branch knops and the flowers of the same.
English Revised Version
and in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof:
Berean Standard Bible
And on the lampstand there shall be four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe in thilke candilstik e schulen be foure cuppis in the maner of a note, and litle rundels and lilies by ech cuppe;
Young's Literal Translation
`And in the candlestick [are] four calyxes made like almonds, its knops and its flowers;
Update Bible Version
and in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;
Webster's Bible Translation
And in the candlesticks [shall be] four bowls made like to almonds, [with] their knobs and their flowers.
World English Bible
and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
New Living Translation
Craft the center stem of the lampstand with four lamp cups shaped like almond blossoms, complete with buds and petals.
New Life Bible
Four cups made to look like almond flowers, with their buds and flowers, will be put on the lamp-stand's base.
New Revised Standard
On the lampstand itself there shall be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyxes and petals.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And in the lampstand itself, four cups, - like almond-flowers - its apples, and its blossoms;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in the manner of a nut, and at every one bowls and lilies.
Revised Standard Version
and on the lampstand itself four cups made like almonds, with their capitals and flowers,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and in the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers.

Contextual Overview

31 Exodus 37:17-24">[xr] "You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and flowers shall be of one piece. 32 And six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side. 33 Three bowls shall be made like almond blossoms on one branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the other branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower--and so for the six branches that come out of the lampstand. 34 On the lampstand itself four bowls shall be made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flower. 35 And there shall be a knob under the first two branches of the same, a knob under the second two branches of the same, and a knob under the third two branches of the same, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand. 36 Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece; all of it shall be one hammered piece of pure gold. 37 You shall make seven lamps for it, and they shall arrange its lamps so that they give light in front of it. 38 And its wick-trimmers and their trays shall be of pure gold. 39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils. 40 And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 25:16
These were the sons of Ishmael and these were their names, by their towns and their settlements, twelve princes according to their nations.
Genesis 25:17
These were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 25:18
(They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria.) He died in the presence of all his brethren.
Genesis 25:19
This is the genealogy of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begot Isaac.
Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.
Psalms 106:24
Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word,
Ecclesiastes 8:15
So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
Isaiah 22:13
But instead, joy and gladness, Slaying oxen and killing sheep, Eating meat and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"
Zechariah 11:13
And the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter"--that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD for the potter.
Matthew 22:5
But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in the candlestick shall be four bowls,.... That is, in the trunk or body of it; the branches had but three apiece, but this being larger had four: and these were also

made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers; as the bowls on the branches had with them.

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.


 
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