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they shall not be removed from it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>You shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>You shall make two cherubim of gold, make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim <i>of one piece</i> with the mercy seat at its two ends. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>The cherubim shall have <i>their</i> wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be <i>turned</i> toward the mercy seat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>There I will meet with you; and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about all that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Table of Showbread</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around <i>it;</i> and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>The rings shall be close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>You shall make its dishes and its pans and its jars and its bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>You shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Golden Lampstand</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand <i>and</i> its base and its shaft are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its bulbs and its flowers shall be <i>of one piece</i> with it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Six branches shall go out from its sides; three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its other side. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>Three cups <i>shall be</i> shaped like almond <i>blossoms</i> in the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond <i>blossoms</i> in the other branch, a bulb and a flowerso for six branches going out from the lampstand; <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>and in the lampstand four cups shaped like almond <i>blossoms,</i> its bulbs and its flowers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>A bulb shall be under the <i>first</i> pair of branches <i>coming</i> out of it, and a bulb under the <i>second</i> pair of branches <i>coming</i> out of it, and a bulb under the <i>third</i> pair of branches <i>coming</i> out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>Their bulbs and their branches <i>shall be of one piece</i> with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>Then you shall make its lamps seven <i>in number;</i> and they shall mount its lamps so as to shed light on the space in front of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>Its snuffers and their trays <i>shall be</i> of pure gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/25-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>See that you make <i>them</i> after the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/exodus/25.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And thou shalt make staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/exodus/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/exodus/25.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And make staves of acacia-wood and overlay them with gold.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/exodus/25.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And thou shalt make staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/exodus/25.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And thou shalt make staffs of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/exodus/25.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/exodus/25.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and thou hast made staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_bread_of_the_presence.htm">The Bread of the Presence</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Thou shalt set upon the table shew-bread before Me alway.'--EXODUS xxv. 30. I suspect that to many readers the term 'shew-bread' conveys little more meaning than if the Hebrew words had been lifted over into our version. The original expression, literally rendered, is 'bread of the face'; or, as the Revised Version has it in the margin, 'presence bread,' and the meaning of that singular designation is paraphrased and explained in my text: 'Thou shalt set upon the table, bread of the presence before <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_bread_of_the_presence.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_golden_lampstand.htm">The Golden Lampstand</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold....' --EXODUS xxv. 31. If we could have followed the Jewish priest as he passed in his daily ministrations into the Inner Court, we should have seen that he first piled the incense on the altar which stood in its centre, and then turned to trim the lamps of the golden candlestick which flanked it on one side. Of course it was not a candlestick, as our versions misleadingly render the word. That was an article of furniture unknown in those days. It was a <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_golden_lampstand.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy_in_christ/eighth_day_holiness_and_indwelling.htm">Eighth Day. Holiness and Indwelling. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">And let them make me a holy place, that I may dwell among them.'--Ex. xxv. 8. 'And the tent shall be sanctified by my glory, and I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.'--Ex. xxix. 43, 45. The Presence of God makes holy, even when it descends but for a little while, as at Horeb, in the burning bush. How much more must that Presence make holy the place where it dwells, where it fixes its permanent abode! So much is this the case, that the place where God dwells <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy_in_christ/eighth_day_holiness_and_indwelling.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">Holy in Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/april_the_thirteenth_pure_gold.htm">April the Thirteenth Pure Gold</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Thou shalt overlay it with pure gold.... And there I will meet with thee." --EXODUS xxv. 10-22. I must put my best into my preparations, and then the Lord will honour my work. My part is to be of "pure gold" if my God is to dwell within it. I must not satisfy myself with cheap flimsy and then assume that the Lord will be satisfied with it. He demands my very best as a condition of His enriching Presence. My prayers must be of "pure gold" if He is to meet me there. There must be nothing vulgar <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/april_the_thirteenth_pure_gold.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_4_results_of_transgression.htm">Results of Transgression</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Prominent among the primary causes that led Solomon into extravagance and oppression was his failure to maintain and foster the spirit of self-sacrifice. When, at the foot of Sinai, Moses told the people of the divine command, "Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them," the response of the Israelites was accompanied by the appropriate gifts. "They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing," and brought offerings. Exodus 25:8; 35:21. For <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_4_results_of_transgression.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/josephus/the_wars_of_the_jews_or_history_of_the_destruction_of_jerusalem/chapter_11_concerning_jonathan_one.htm">Concerning Jonathan, one of the Sicarii, that Stirred up a Sedition in Cyrene, and was a False Accuser [Of the Innocent]. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. And now did the madness of the Sicarii, like a disease, reach as far as the cities of Cyrene; for one Jonathan, a vile person, and by trade a weaver, came thither and prevailed with no small number of the poorer sort to give ear to him; he also led them into the desert, upon promising them that he would show them signs and apparitions. And as for the other Jews of Cyrene, he concealed his knavery from them, and put tricks upon them; but those of the greatest dignity among them informed Catullus, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/josephus/the_wars_of_the_jews_or_history_of_the_destruction_of_jerusalem/chapter_11_concerning_jonathan_one.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Flavius Josephus—</span><span class="citation2">The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xi_how_intent_the.htm">How Intent the Ruler Ought to be on Meditations in the Sacred Law. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">But all this is duly executed by a ruler, if, inspired by the spirit of heavenly fear and love, he meditate daily on the precepts of Sacred Writ, that the words of Divine admonition may restore in him the power of solicitude and of provident circumspection with regard to the celestial life, which familiar intercourse with men continually destroys; and that one who is drawn to oldness of life by secular society may by the aspiration of compunction be ever renewed to love of the spiritual country. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xi_how_intent_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_great_controversy/chapter_23_what_is_the.htm">What is the Sanctuary?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The scripture which above all others had been both the foundation and the central pillar of the advent faith was the declaration: "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." Daniel 8:14. These had been familiar words to all believers in the Lord's soon coming. By the lips of thousands was this prophecy repeated as the watchword of their faith. All felt that upon the events therein foretold depended their brightest expectations and most cherished hopes. These <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_great_controversy/chapter_23_what_is_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Great Controversy</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/solomons_temple_spiritualized.htm">Solomon's Temple Spiritualized</a><br></span><span class="snippet">or, Gospel Light Fetched out of the Temple at Jerusalem, to Let us More Easily into the Glory of New Testament Truths. 'Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Isreal;--shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out hereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof.'--Ezekiel 43:10, 11 London: Printed for, and sold by George Larkin, at the Two Swans without Bishopgate, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/solomons_temple_spiritualized.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/torrey/the_person_and_work_of_the_holy_spirit/chapter_xxi_the_work_of.htm">The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prophets and Apostles. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The work of the Holy Spirit in apostles and prophets is an entirely distinctive work. He imparts to apostles and prophets an especial gift for an especial purpose. We read in 1 Cor. xii. 4, 8-11, 28, 29, R. V., "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.... For to one is given through the Spirit wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit; and to another workings <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/torrey/the_person_and_work_of_the_holy_spirit/chapter_xxi_the_work_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">R. A. Torrey—</span><span class="citation2">The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/palmer/a_birds-eye_view_of_the_bible/ii_the_kingdom_forming.htm">The Kingdom Forming</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Exodus Page Leviticus Page Deuteronomy Page EXODUS I. Pictorial Device. Originate one, or omit. II. III. IV. V. 1706 B.C. to 1490 B.C., making 216 years. VI. 1. 1 to 18. Israel Delivered. 2. 19 to 34. Israel Taught at Mount Sinai. 3. 35 to 40. Israel Prepared for Worship. VII. Chapter 20.2. VIII. God Delivering a Nation. IX. 12:13: "And when I see the blood I will pass over you." 15:11. X. 1. Bondage. 2. 3. Burning Bush. 7-11. 12. 14. Red Sea. 15. 16. Manna. 20. 25 and 35. The <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/palmer/a_birds-eye_view_of_the_bible/ii_the_kingdom_forming.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frank Nelson Palmer—</span><span class="citation2">A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/25-13.htm">Exodus 25:13 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/exodus/25-13.htm">Exodus 25:13 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/exodus/25-13.htm">Exodus 25:13 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/exodus/25-13.htm">Exodus 25:13 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/exodus/25-13.htm">Exodus 25:13 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/25-13.htm">Exodus 25:13 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/exodus/25-13.htm">Exodus 25:13 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../exodus/25-12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Exodus 25:12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Exodus 25:12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../exodus/25-14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Exodus 25:14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Exodus 25:14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/exodus/25-13.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>