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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

plates and dishes and bowls and its pitchers for the pouring
out of drink offerings. They made the lampstand of pure gold
and hammered it out, base and shaft; its flowerlike cups, buds
and blossoms were of one piece with it. (Exodus, 37:16-17)

Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in the Lord's
house: the golden altar; the golden table...; the lampstands of
pure gold (five on the right and five on the left, in front of the
innermost room the gold floral work and lamps and tongs;
the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dish-
es and censers; and the gold sockets for the doors of the in-
nermost room, the Most Holy Place... (1 Kings, 7:48-50)

And he made the ten candlesticks of gold according to the or-
dinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five
on the right hand, and five on the left. He made also ten tables
... five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a
hundred basins of gold. (2 Chronicles, 4:7-8)

You shall make settings of gold, and two chains of pure gold;

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