Text -- Exodus 37:17-24 (NET)

The Making of the Lampstand

37:17 He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were from the same piece. 37:18 Six branches were extending from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. 37:19 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on the first branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on the next branch, and the same for the six branches that were extending from the lampstand. 37:20 On the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms, 37:21 with a bud under the first two branches from it, and a bud under the next two branches from it, and a bud under the third two branches from it; according to the six branches that extended from it. 37:22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece; all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold. 37:23 He made its seven lamps, its trimmers, and its trays of pure gold. 37:24 He made the lampstand and all its accessories with seventy-five pounds of pure gold.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 37:17

¹ tn Heb “from it”; the referent (“the same piece” of wrought metal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

NET Notes: Exo 37:19

¹ tn Heb “the one branch.” But the repetition of “one…one” means here one after another, or the “first” and then the “next.”

² tn Heb “thus for six branches….”

NET Notes: Exo 37:21

¹ tn As in Exod 26:35, the translation of “first” and “next” and “third” is interpretive, because the text simply says “under two branches” in each of three places.

NET Notes: Exo 37:22

¹ tn Heb “were from it.”

NET Notes: Exo 37:24

¹ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the lampstand) has been specified in the translation for clarity.