Exodus 25:38

25:38 Its trimmers and its trays ¹  are to be ²  of pure gold.

Exodus 37:23

37:23 He made its seven lamps, its trimmers, and its trays of pure gold.

Exodus 27:3

27:3 You are to make its pots for the ashes, ³  its shovels, its tossing bowls, ⁴  its meat hooks, and its fire pans – you are to make all ⁵  its utensils of bronze.

Exodus 38:3

38:3 He made all the utensils of the altar – the pots, the shovels, the tossing bowls, the meat hooks, and the fire pans – he made all its utensils of bronze.

[25:38]  ¹ sn The first word refers to something like small tongs or tweezers used to pull up and trim the wicks; the second word refers to fire-pans or censers.

[25:38]  ² tn “are to be” has been supplied.

[27:3]  ³ sn The word is literally “its fat,” but sometimes it describes “fatty ashes” (TEV “the greasy ashes”). The fat would run down and mix with the ashes, and this had to be collected and removed.

[27:3]  ⁴ sn This was the larger bowl used in tossing the blood at the side of the altar.

[27:3]  ⁵ tn The text has “to all its vessels.” This is the lamed (ל) of inclusion according to Gesenius, meaning “all its utensils” (GKC 458 §143.e).