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….”
3 sn The vision apparently describes two olive trees providing olive oil by pipes to a large basin atop the menorah. From this basin two pipes extend to each of the seven lamps of the menorah, for a total of fourteen pipes in all. See vv. 11-12.