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When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
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Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
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Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
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they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
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Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,
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and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes.
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“This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.
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He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
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“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.
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but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
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olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
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Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.
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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.
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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.
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The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
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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.
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And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil.
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From the basket of bread made without yeast, which is before the Lord, take one round loaf, one thick loaf with olive oil mixed in, and one thin loaf.
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With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
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500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.
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olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
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They also brought spices and olive oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
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Six branches extended from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.
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Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on one branch, three on the next branch and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.
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One bud was 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.
