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"Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, its base and its shaft, are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its bulbs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

"Six branches shall go out from its sides; three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its other side.

And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

"Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the other branch, a bulb and a flower—the same for six branches going out from the lampstand;

Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

and on the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers.

And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

"A bulb shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

"Their bulbs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

"Then you shall make its lamps seven in number; and they shall mount its lamps so as to shed light on the space in front of it.

And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

"Its tongs and its trays shall be of pure gold.

And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

"It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.

Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

"See that you make them by the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain.

And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.