Exodus 25:38
Good News Translation
Make its tongs and trays of pure gold.

New Revised Standard Version
Its snuffers and trays shall be of pure gold.

Contemporary English Version
The tongs and trays for taking care of the lamps are to be made of pure gold.

New American Bible
These, as well as the trimming shears and trays, must be of pure gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.

the tongs

2 Chronicles 4:21 And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs: all were made of the finest gold.

Isaiah 6:6 And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.

snuff dishes

Exodus 37:23 He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the vessels where the snuffings were to be put out, of the purest gold.

Numbers 4:9 They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and all the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps:

1 Kings 7:50 And pots, and fleshhooks, and bowls, and mortars, and censers, of most pure gold: and the hinges for the doors of the inner house of the holy of holies, and for the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

2 Kings 12:13 But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of gold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the Lord:

2 Kings 25:14 They took away also the pots of brass, and the mazers, and the forks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of brass, with which they ministered.

Jeremiah 52:18 And they took the caldrons, and the fleshhooks, and the psalteries, and the bowls, and the little mortars, and all the brazen vessels that had been used in the ministry: and

Context
The Golden Lampstand
37Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light over against. 38The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.39The whole weight of the candlestick, with all the furniture thereof, shall be a talent of the purest gold.…
Cross References
Exodus 25:37
Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light over against.

Exodus 25:39
The whole weight of the candlestick, with all the furniture thereof, shall be a talent of the purest gold.

Exodus 37:23
He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the vessels where the snuffings were to be put out, of the purest gold.

Numbers 4:9
They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and all the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps:

Exodus 25:37
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