{"id":1180,"date":"2012-03-23T08:10:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2012-03-27T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T20:39:11","slug":"the-lampstand-of-pure-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/2012\/03\/23\/the-lampstand-of-pure-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LAMPSTAND OF PURE GOLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1181\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/2012\/03\/23\/the-lampstand-of-pure-gold\/img_3160\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1181\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/300\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_3160-300x240.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_3160-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_3160.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This last week we were translating the portion in Exodus 26 that talks about the lampstand of pure gold that was to be made for the tabernacle. I would prefer to call it the &#8220;lampstand of pure headaches&#8221; on account of the difficulty in translation. Going into this passage I had no idea it was so complicated. The whole idea of an ornate lampstand is already foreign enough, never mind throwing in concepts like &#8220;pure hammered gold&#8221; and &#8220;calyxes from the flowers of an almond tree&#8221;. I don&#8217;t recall having ever heard of a calyx in English before. How am I supposed to translate something I don&#8217;t even understand in my own language? As I venture further into translation, I have found the Bible is full of technical terms that I had never thought of before.<\/p>\n<p>Well, in case you are like me and not up on your botanical terms, apparently a calyx is the green leafy bottom part of a flower. Some call it the bud. With the help of this Hibiscus flower in the picture I found out that the Mwinika people call it &#8220;ekwikhwi.&#8221; The petals of the flower are things they call &#8220;dhothapalapuwa.&#8221; We are still on the hunt for what to call an almond tree. So far nobody has recognized the pictures of it to know what to call it. Oh well, we&#8217;ll keep trying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last week we were translating the portion in Exodus 26 that talks about the lampstand of pure gold that was to be made for the tabernacle. I would prefer to call it the &#8220;lampstand of pure headaches&#8221; on account of the difficulty in translation. Going into this passage I had no idea it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}