Exodus 37:17 — Community Reflections

EXODUS 37:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 1

“And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:”

They made the lampstand of pure gold and hammered it out, base and shaft; its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms were of one piece with it. The lampstand — the most technically demanding single piece in the tabernacle — is hammered from pure gold exactly as Exodus 25:31 specified. The one-piece construction: base, shaft, cups, buds, and blossoms emerge from a single piece of hammered gold. The craftsman who can produce a seven-branched lampstand from a single talent of pure gold without joints or seams is the craftsman that Bezalel's Spirit-given skill enables.

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Elena PetrovaNote1mo ago

The Seven Branches Hold Light

The lampstand, with its central stem and six branches extending from it, carried seven lamps total. The design created a living thing, almost organic. It wasn't a rigid structure but something with mo...