Their exact use is not specified, though here most commentators agree that their purpose was to scrape away the old coals and carry them away.
Exod 27:3 Make the pails for removing its ashes, as well as its scrapers, basins, flesh hooks, and fire pans - make all its utensils of copper.
The classical commentators ( ad loc.) debate whether these were used to scrape away the ashes (Rashi), to hold the new oil and wick (ibn Ezra), or to gather and carry away the old oil and wick (R. Exod 25:38 and its tongs and fire pans of pure gold. Golden Maḥtot for lamps-Golden maḥtot are among the implements associated with the golden candelabra ( menorah) of the Tabernacle: שמות כה:לח וּמַלְקָחֶיהָ וּמַחְתֹּתֶיהָ זָהָב טָהוֹר. We find several different maḥtot in the Bible: Thus literally, a maḥtāh is an object with which one moves or heaps coals or other burning embers, like a shovel or a pan. Prov 6:27 Can a man rake embers into his bosom without burning his clothes? Fire Pans in the Tabernacle and the Temple
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