Sinai & The Law

On one branch were three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a ring of outer leaves and petals; likewise on the opposite branch three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a ring of outer leaves and petals; and similarly for all six branches extending from the menorah.

On the central shaft of the menorah were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its ring of outer leaves and petals.

Where each pair of branches joined the central shaft was a ring of outer leaves of one piece with the pair of branches -thus for all six branches.

Their rings of outer leaves and their branches were of one piece with the shaft. Thus the whole menorah was one piece of hammered work made of pure gold.

He made its seven lamps, its tongs and its trays of pure gold.

The menorah and its utensils were made of sixty-six pounds of pure gold.

He made the altar on which to burn incense of acacia-wood, eighteen inches square and three feet high; its horns were a single unit.

He overlaid it with pure gold -its top, all around its sides and its horns; and he put around it a molding of gold.

He made two gold rings for it under its molding at the two corners on both sides, to hold the carrying-poles.

He made the poles of acacia-wood and overlaid them with gold.

He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of aromatic plant substances as would an expert perfume-maker.

He made the altar for burnt offerings of acacia-wood, seven-and-a-half feet long and seven-and-a-half feet wide - it was square - and four-and-a-half feet high.

He made horns for it on its four corners, the horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

He made all the utensils for the altar -its pots, shovels, basins, meat-hooks and fire pans; all its utensils he made of bronze.

He made for the altar a grate of bronze netting, under its rim, reaching halfway up the altar.

He cast four rings for the four ends of the bronze grate to hold the poles.

He made the poles of acacia-wood and overlaid them with bronze.

He put the carrying-poles into the rings on the sides of the altar; he made it of planks and hollow inside.

He made the basin of bronze with its base of bronze from the mirrors of the women serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

He made the courtyard. On the south side, facing southward, the tapestries for the courtyard were made of finely woven linen, 150 feet long,

supported on twenty posts in twenty bronze sockets; the hooks on the posts and the attached rings for hanging were of silver.

On the north side they were 150 feet long, hung on twenty posts in twenty bronze sockets, with the hooks on the posts and their rings of silver.

On the west side were tapestries seventy-five feet long, hung on ten posts in ten sockets, with the hooks on the posts and their rings of silver.

On the east side were tapestries seventy-five feet long.

The tapestries for the one side [of the gateway] were twenty-two-and-a-half feet long, hung on three posts in three sockets;