THE LAMPSTAND
OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE LORD
For the Lamps of Eternal Light

Discovered in the Antechamber
Of the tomb of TUT-ankh-amun

The LORD said to Moses

"And you shall make a lamp-stand of pure gold.
The base and the shaft of the lampstand
shall be made of hammered work;
its cups. its capitals and its flowers
shall be of one piece with it;
and there shall be six branches going out of its sides,
three branches of the lampstand cut of one side of it
and three branches of the lampstand
out of the other side of it;
three made like almonds, each with capital and flower,
on one branch,
and three cups made like almonds,
each with capital and flower, on the other branch
- so for the six branches
going out of the lampstand;
and on the lampstand itself
four cups made like almonds..."

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Count in the Lampstand above

SIX Branches but only FOUR FLOWERS

Count the flowers and stems carefully and compare Exodus.

Surely there is not
in the whole ancient world another Lampstand such as this one
fitting the description in Exodus of the Lampstand of the Tabernacle.

The Biblical mistranslation of "almond" instead of "lily" comes from confusion of
Indo-European (e.g. Latvian, Lithuanian) gile, jile "almond, Mandel" with lilija "lily".

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The Ark of the Covenant
by Andis Kaulins
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All Graphics are from the Treasure of the Tomb of Tut-ankh-amun
Which was the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant
as found by Howard Carter,
the hiding of which is described in the
Mishnayot