⁵ It was a handbreadth^[a] in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.^[b]

³⁵ He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.

²⁹ On the walls^(A) all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim,^(B) palm trees and open flowers.

¹⁸ The inside of the temple was cedar,^(A) carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.

²⁰ And on the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.

The Lampstand^(A)

³¹ “Make a lampstand^(B) of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them. ³² Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other. ³³ 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. ³⁴ And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms. ³⁵ 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. ³⁶ The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.^(C)

³⁷ “Then make its seven lamps^(D) and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it. ³⁸ Its wick trimmers and trays^(E) are to be of pure gold. ³⁹ A talent^[a] of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories. ⁴⁰ See that you make them according to the pattern^(F) shown you on the mountain.