Exodus 25:38 - Exposition

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 27:1-21 :23, in the place of tongs, had not been indented, and were indeed unknown to the ancients.