Exodus 25:33-35

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. 25:34 On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms, 25:35 with a bud under the first ³  two branches from it, and a bud under the next ⁴  two branches from it, and a bud under the third ⁵  two branches from it, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand.

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 For clarity the phrase “the first” has been supplied.

⁴ tn For clarity the phrase “the next” has been supplied.

⁵ tn For clarity the phrase “the third” has been supplied.