Exodus 25:38
 Exodus 25:38 
New International Version (©2011)
Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The lamp snuffers and trays must also be made of pure gold.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Its snuffers and their trays shall be of pure gold.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Its snuffers and firepans must be of pure gold.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Its tongs and trays are to be of pure gold.

NET Bible (©2006)
Its trimmers and its trays are to be of pure gold.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The tongs and incense burners must be made of pure gold.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And its wick trimmers, and their trays, shall be of pure gold.

American King James Version
And the tongs thereof, and the firepans thereof, shall be of pure gold.

American Standard Version
And the snuffers thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall 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.

Darby Bible Translation
and the snuffers thereof, and the snuff-trays thereof, of pure gold.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And its tongs, and its snuff-dishes, shall be of pure gold.

World English Bible
Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.

Young's Literal Translation
And its snuffers and its snuff dishes are of pure gold;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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,


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 38. - The tongs thereof. Tongs or pincers were required for trimming the wicks of the lamps. Compare 1 Kings 7:49; 2 Chronicles 4:21. Snuff-dishes were also needed for the reception of the fragments removed from the wicks by the tongs. "Snuffers," though the word is used in Exodus 37:23, in the place of tongs, had not been indented, and were indeed unknown to the ancients.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Which, according to Jarchi, was a sort of forks with which they took the wicks out of the oil, and put them in the lamps; or, as some think, the snuffers, but they are distinguished from tongs, 1 Kings 7:49 and the snuffdishes thereof shall be of pure gold; in which the tongs or snuffers were put, or into which the snuff itself was put that was snuffed off. Jarchi says they were a sort of small cups, in which they put the ashes of the lamp, morning by morning, when they trimmed the lamps from the ashes of the wicks which burned in the night, and were extinct: so Ben Gersom and Lyra say they were vessels full of water where those were put which were snuffed off, that they might not make a smoke, which is not improbable.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

38. tongs—snuffers.


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The Golden Lampstand
37And you shall make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. 38And the tongs thereof, and the firepans thereof, shall be of pure gold. 39Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

Exodus 25:37 "Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.
Exodus 25:39 A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.
Exodus 37:23 They made its seven lamps, as well as its wick trimmers and trays, of pure gold.
Numbers 4:9 "They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand that is for light, together with its lamps, its wick trimmers and trays, and all its jars for the olive oil used to supply it.