Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold. The maintenance tools — the wick trimmers that remove the charred portion of the wick and the trays that catch the trimmings — are pure gold. The ordinary tools of lamp maintenance are given the same material as the lampstand itself. This is a consistent principle in the tabernacle's design: no distinction is made between the sacred objects and the tools used to maintain them. The maintenance of holy things is itself holy work. The gold wick trimmers that trim the lamps of the presence are handled by the same priests who offer the blood sacrifices. The ordinary and the extraordinary meet in the gold of the lampstand's service.

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