The rites and worship of the Jews . r-nacle, thus leaving some cubits to hang down on the west side,completely hiding the byssus-curtains underneath. North andsouth the thirty cubits of goats hair carpet hung nine cubits oneach side, again covering the byssus. It seems also probable that this covering was securelyfastened, at a little distance from the silver sockets of theboards, by the pins and cords referred to in Exod. ; xxxv. 18. Above these two coverings was the roof (Hebrew, gag). Chap. II.] THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK. 31 It consisted of two coverings, the under one of rams skinsdye
The rites and worship of the Jews . r-nacle, thus leaving some cubits to hang down on the west side,completely hiding the byssus-curtains underneath. North andsouth the thirty cubits of goats hair carpet hung nine cubits oneach side, again covering the byssus. It seems also probable that this covering was securelyfastened, at a little distance from the silver sockets of theboards, by the pins and cords referred to in Exod. ; xxxv. 18. Above these two coverings was the roof (Hebrew, gag). Chap. II.] THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK. 31 It consisted of two coverings, the under one of rams skinsdyed red, the outer one of tachash skins, rendered seal-skinsand porpoise-skins by the Revisers, and now generally sup-posed to be the skin of the dolphin (dugong), of which we aretold there are three species in the Red Sea, and which wouldtherefore not be difficult to procure in the Desert of Sinai. The Golden Candlestick. Scanty light of day penetrated within the Sanctuary; butnevertheless, both by day and by night, to mark that the. THE CANDLESTICK, OR LAMPSTAND. Keeper of Israel neither slumbered nor slept, the Holy Placewas ablaze. For within it, on the south side, stood the greatseven-branched Golden Candlestick,1 type of the nation Israel,the bringer of light into the world. Its weight was enormous,a talen; of gold; for it was all of pure metal, and is calculatedto have been worth over ^5000. Nor was it barbaric a golden foot or base sprang a single upright stem,1 Candlestick.—With the Revisers we retain the word, although lampstandwould be more literally exact. 32 RITES AND WORSHIP OF THE JEWS. [Part I. supported on either side by three branches, in all making sevenstems. We cannot tell how far the original Candlestick, ofwhich the pattern had been seen in the Mount, was like thatdepicted on the Arch of Titus. In form the TabernacleCandlestick was like an almond plant, the almond (shaked, the1 early waker) being the type of Israel, the first nation to wakeout o
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