Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
- BSB The wick trimmers and their trays must be of pure gold.
- NKJV And its wick-trimmers and their trays shall be of pure gold.
- NASB Its tongs and its trays shall be of pure gold.
- NLT The lamp snuffers and trays must also be made of pure gold.
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Cross-references · 8
- Exod 37:23He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.
- Num 4:9“They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lamp stand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
- 1 Kgs 7:50the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.
- 2 Kgs 12:13But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;
- 2 Kgs 25:14They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.
- 2 Chr 4:21and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was perfect gold;
- Isa 6:6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
- Jer 52:18They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.
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