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Exodus 37

1And Beseleel made also the ark of the wood setim, having two cubits & an half in length, and a cubit and an half in breadth, the height also was of one cubit and an half: and he plated it with the purest gold within & without.

2And he made to it a crown of gold round about,

3casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings in the one side, and two in the other.

4Bars also he made of the wood setim, which he plated with gold,

5and which he put into the rings, that were at the sides of the ark to carry it.

6He 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.

7Two Cherubins also of beaten gold, which he set on either side of the propitiatory:

8One 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,

9spreading their wings, and covering the Propitiatory, and looking one toward the other and toward it.

10He 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.

11And he did compass it with the finest gold, and he made to it a golden ledge round about,

12and to the ledge itself a golden crown interpolished of four fingers, & upon the same another golden crown.

13And he cast four rings of gold, which he put in the four corners at every foot of the table

14against the crown: & he put the bars into them, that the table might be carried.

15The bars also themselves he made of the wood setim, and compassed them with gold.

16And the vessels for the diverse uses of the table, saucers, phials, and goblets, & censers, of pure gold, wherein the libaments are to be offered.

17He made also the candlestick beaten of the finest gold. From the shaft whereof the branches, cups, & bowls & lilies did proceed:

18six on both sides, three branches on one side, & three on the other:

19three cups in manner of a nut on every branch, and bowls withal and lilies, and three cups of the fashion of a nut in another branch, and bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six branches, that proceeded from the shaft of the candlestick, equal.

20And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a nut, and bowls withal at every one and lilies:

21and bowls under two branches in three places, which together make six branches proceeding from one shaft.

22Both the bowls therefore, & the branches were out of it, all beaten of the purest gold.

23He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the vessels, where the snuffings should be put out, of most pure gold.

24The candlestick withal the vessels thereof did weigh a talent of gold.

25He 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.

26And he plated it with the purest gold, with the grate and the walls and the horns.

27And 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.

28And the bars themselves he made also of the wood setim, and covered them with plates of gold.

29He compounded also oil for the ointment of sanctification, and incense of the purest spices with the work of a pigmentary.