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The Golden Candlestick

A lampstand of beaten gold with seven lamps gave the only light in the Holy Place.

Location

Holy Place, south side

Weight

One talent of pure gold

Lamps

Seven

Made

One piece of beaten work

3D model of the golden candlestick with seven lamps

Video lesson

Golden Candlestick in 3D

What the Bible says

The pattern given to Moses

King James Version

And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flower, shall be of the same.

And six branches shall come out of the sides of it: three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

Exodus 25:31–40; cf. Exodus 37:17–24

Pointing to Christ

What it teaches us

There were no windows in the Holy Place. Without the candlestick, the priests worked in darkness.

“I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness.” John 8:12