Chapter 37

Beseleel maketh the Ark. ℣.6 the Propitiatory, with Cherubims, ℣.10 the Table, with vessel belonging thereto, ℣.17 the Candlestick with bowels and branches: ℣.23 seven lamps with snuffers, ℣.25 the Altar of incense, ℣.29 and compoundeth the incense.

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   And Beseleel made also the ark of the wood setim, having two cubits & an half in length, and a cubit an and half in breadth, the height also was of one cubit and an half: and he plated it with the purest gold within & without.

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   And he made to it a crown of gold round about,

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   casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings in the one side, and two in the other.

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   Bars also he made of the wood setim, which he plated with gold,

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   and which he put into the rings, that were at the sides of the ark to carry it.

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   He made also the Propitiatory, that is, the Oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits & an half in length, and a cubit & an half in breadth.

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   Two Cherubins also of beaten gold, which he set on either side of the propitiatory:

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   One Cherub in the top of one side, and the other Cherub in the top of the other side: two Cherubins in each top of the Propitiatory,

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   spreading their wings, and covering the Propitiatory, and looking one toward the other and toward it.

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    He made also the table of the wood setim in length two cubits, and in breadth one cubit, which had in height a cubit and an half.

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    And he did compass it with the finest gold, and he made to it a golden ledge round about,

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    and to the ledge itself a golden crown enterpolished of four fingers, & upon the same an other golden crown.

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    And he cast four rings of gold, which he put in the four corners at every foot of the table,

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    against the crown: & he put the bars into them, that the table might be carried.

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    The bars also themselves he made of the wood setim, and compassed them with gold.

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    And the vessel for the diverse uses of the table, saucers, phials, and goblets, & censers, of pure gold, wherein the libaments are to be offered.

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    He made also the candlestick beaten of the finest gold. From the shaft whereof the branches, cups, & bowls & lilies did proceed:

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    six on both sides, three branches on one side, & three on the other:

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    three cups in manner of a nut on every branch, and bowls withal and lilies, and three cups of the fashion of a nut in an other branch, and bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six branches, that proceeded from the shaft of the candlestick, equal.

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    And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a nut, and bowls withal at every one and lilies:

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    and bowls under two branches in three places, which together make six branches proceeding from one shaft.

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    Both the bowls therefore, & the branches were out of it, all beaten of the purest gold.

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    He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the vessel, where the snuffings should be put out, of most pure gold.

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    The candlestick withal the vessel thereof did weigh a talent of gold.

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    He made also the altar of incense of the wood setim, having a cubit every way four square, and in height two: from the corners whereof the horns did proceed.

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    And he plated it with the purest gold, with the grate and the walls and the horns.

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    And he made to it a crown of gold round about, and two golden rings under the crown at either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar may be carried.

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    And the bars themselves he made also of the wood setim, and covered them with plates of gold.

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    He compounded also oil for the ointment of sanctification, and incense of the purest spices with the work of a pigmentary.