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Exodus 25:29
You are also to make the plates and dishes, as well as the pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks to Moses on Mount Sinai during the detailed instructions for tabernacle construction. The command addresses the specific crafting of ritual vessels to accompany the table of showbread.
The words — The Hebrew וְ/עָשִׂ֨יתָ (ve./'a.Si.ta) translates literally to "and you will make," issuing a direct imperative. The term זָהָ֥ב (za.Hav) means "gold," designating the sole material permitted for these vessels.
The thread — The specification of gold plates, dishes, pitchers, and bowls for drink offerings repeats in the fulfillment record at Exodus 37:16 and appears in the priestly transport regulations at Numbers 4:7. The motif of a prepared table for communion later appears in Revelation 3:20.
Why it lands — The text commands the fabrication of specific gold utensils to hold drink offerings alongside the consecrated bread. The reader must execute the precise material and functional requirements God outlined for the sanctuary service.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
Cross-references
- Numbers 4:7 Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and place the plates and cups on it, along with the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread offering is to remain on it.
- Exodus 37:16 He also made the utensils for the table out of pure gold: its plates and dishes, as well as its bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings.
- Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
- Leviticus 24:5 You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
- Numbers 7:13 His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- Numbers 7:19 The offering he presented was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- Numbers 7:31 His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- 1 Kings 7:50 the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
- 2 Chronicles 4:22 the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of pure gold; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place as well as the doors of the main hall.
- Ezra 1:9 This was the inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 silver utensils,