Exodus 25:40 - Easy To Read Version Be very careful to make everything exactly the way I showed you on the mountain.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And see to it that you copy [exactly] their pattern which was shown you on the mountain. [Heb. 8:5, 6.] American Standard Version (1901) And see that thou make them after their pattern, which hath been showed thee in the mount. Common English Bible See to it that you make them according to the blueprint for them that you were shown on the mountain. Catholic Public Domain Version Observe, and then make it according to the example that was shown to you on the mountain." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Look and make it according to the pattern, that was shewn thee in the mount. |
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for building the temple. {\cf2\super [305]} Those plans were also for the porch around the temple, and for its buildings, its storerooms, its upper rooms, its inside rooms, and for the place for the mercy seat. {\cf2\super [306]}
David said, “All these plans were written with the Lord guiding me. The Lord helped me understand everything in the plans.”
Solomon made ten lampstands of gold. He followed the plans made for these lampstands. He put the lampstands in the temple. {\cf2\super [62]} There were five lampstands on the right side and five lampstands on the left side.
Use 75 pounds [187] of pure gold to make the lampstand and the things to be used with it.
I will show you what the Holy Tent [167] and everything in it should look like. Build everything exactly like I show you.
Make the altar like an empty box with the sides made from boards. Make the altar just like I showed you on the mountain.
the sweet-smelling anointing oil, [322] the sweet-smelling incense for the Holy Place. [323]
Then Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and all the other skilled people that the Lord had given special skills to. And these people came because they wanted to help with the work.
This is how the lampstand was made: It was made from hammered gold, all the way from the gold base {at the bottom} to the gold flowers {at the top}. It looked just like the pattern that the Lord had shown to Moses.
“The Holy Tent {\cf2\super [144]} was with our ancestors in the desert. God told Moses how to make this tent. He made it like the plan that God showed him.
The work that these priests do is really only a copy and a shadow of the things that are in heaven. That is why God warned Moses {\cf2\super [82]} when Moses was ready to build the Holy Tent {\cf2\super [83]} : “Be sure to make everything exactly like the pattern I showed you on the mountain.” {\cf2\super [84]}
In the future, if it happens that your children say that we do not belong to Israel, then our children can say, ‘Look! Our fathers who lived before us made an altar. That altar is exactly like the Lord’s altar {at the Holy Tent}. We do not use this altar for sacrifices—this altar is proof that we are part of Israel.’