Exodus 25:33

25:33 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on the next ¹  branch, and the same ²  for the six branches extending from the lampstand.

Exodus 37:19

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 ³  branch, and the same ⁴  for the six branches that were extending from the lampstand.

Exodus 37:21

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. ⁵ 

¹ tn The text uses “one” again; “the one…the one” means “the one…and the next” in the distributive sense.

² tn Heb “thus.”

³ tn Heb “the one branch.” But the repetition of “one…one” means here one after another, or the “first” and then the “next.”

⁴ tn Heb “thus for six branches….”

⁵ 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.