17. He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were from the same piece.
18. Six branches were extending from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it.
19. Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on the first branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on the next branch, and the same for the six branches that were extending from the lampstand.
20. On the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms,
21. with a bud under the first two branches from it, and a bud under the next two branches from it, and a bud under the third two branches from it; according to the six branches that extended from it.
22. Their buds and their branches were of one piece; all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold.
23. He made its seven lamps, its trimmers, and its trays of pure gold.
24. He made the lampstand and all its accessories with seventy-five pounds of pure gold.
25. He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half – a square – and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it.
26. He overlaid it with pure gold – its top, its four walls, and its horns – and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.
27. He also made two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, as places for poles to carry it with.
28. He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
29. He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.