Their knobs and their branches were of one piece; all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold.
Parallel translations
- WEB Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
- KJV Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
- BSB The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
- NASB Their bulbs and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was a single hammered work of pure gold.
- NLT The almond buds and branches were all of one piece with the center stem, and they were hammered from pure gold.
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Quick answer
The buds and branches were all of one piece, a single mass of hammered pure gold. The whole lampstand was one unified, costly work.
Overview
That the entire menorah was beaten from a single talent of gold shows both its great value and its perfect unity. Such unity in the light-bearing vessel fits the one true light it symbolizes. The work follows Exodus 25:36.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
- Ps 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
- Isa 5:4–5What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
- Exod 25:31“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lamp stand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
- Isa 5:10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
- 1 Cor 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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