Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree.

“My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

So the man went to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder were brought for the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet.

The steward took the men into Joseph’s house, gave them water to wash their feet and provided fodder for their donkeys.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his.

When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.

and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky.

Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.

The Lampstand

“Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them.

Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.

Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.

And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.

One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair—six branches in all.

The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

“Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.

A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.

Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.

Oil for the Lampstand

“Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning.

In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the Lord from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.

Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then splash blood against the sides of the altar.

“Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.

He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the Lord for the generations to come.

Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet with water from it.