Objects
almonds
Almonds are Canaan's produce in Genesis. Bezalel shapes the lamp-stand's cups like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and bud, on the six branches and the stand itself.
Category
Objects
First mention
Genesis 30:37
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Scripture references
- Genesis 30:37
Jacob then got fresh shoots from poplar, almond and plane trees, and peeled them in white strips, laying bare the white part of the shoots.
- Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, 'If it must be so, then do this: take some of the country's best products in your baggage and take them to the man as a gift: some balsam, some honey, gum tragacanth, resin, pistachio nuts and almonds.
- Exodus 25:33
The first branch must carry three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and petals; the second branch, too, must carry three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and bud, and similarly for all six branches springing from the lampstand.
- Exodus 37:19
The first branch carried three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and bud; the second branch, too, carried three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyx and bud, and similarly all six branches springing from the lamp-stand.