31 "Make a Lampstand of pure hammered gold. Make its stem and branches, cups, calyxes, and petals all of one piece. 32 Give it six branches, three from one side and three from the other; 33 put three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on one branch, three on the next, and so on - the same for all six branches. 34 On the main stem of the Lampstand, make four cups shaped like almonds, with calyx and petals, 35 a calyx extending from under each pair of the six branches, 36 the entire Lampstand fashioned from one piece of hammered pure gold. 37 "Make seven of these lamps for the Table. Arrange the lamps so they throw their light out in front. 38 Make the candle snuffers and trays out of pure gold. 39 "Use a seventy-five-pound brick of pure gold to make the Lampstand and its accessories. 40 Study the design you were given on the mountain and make everything accordingly.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 25:31-40
Commentary on Exodus 25:31-40
(Read Exodus 25:31-40)
The candlestick represents the light of God's word and Spirit, in and through Christ Jesus, afforded in this dark world to his believing people, to direct their worship and obedience, and to afford them consolations. The church is still dark, as the tabernacle was, in comparison with what it will be in heaven; but the word of God is a light shining in a dark place, Matthew 28:20, is like this, Observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. Let us remember that we are the temples of the Holy Ghost, that we have the law of God in our hearts, that we are to live a life of communion with God, feast on his ordinances, and are the light of the world, if indeed we are followers of Christ. May the Lord help us to try ourselves by this view of religion, and to walk according thereto.