Exodus 25:34

25:34 On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms,

Exodus 37:20

37:20 On the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms,

Exodus 25:31-32

The Lampstand

25:31 ¹ “You are to make a lampstand ²  of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, ³  its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece. ⁴  25:32 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, ⁵  three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. ⁶ 

Exodus 37:17-18

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. ⁷  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.

Exodus 30:27

30:27 the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,

Exodus 35:14

35:14 the lampstand for ⁸  the light and its accessories, its lamps, and oil for the light;

Exodus 40:4

40:4 You are to bring in the table and set out the things that belong on it; ⁹  then you are to bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

Exodus 40:24

40:24 And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.

Exodus 26:35

26:35 You are to put the table outside the curtain and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle, opposite the table, and you are to place the table on the north side.

Exodus 31:8

31:8 the table with its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

Exodus 39:37

39:37 the pure ¹⁰  lampstand, its lamps, with the lamps set in order, and all its accessories, and oil for the light;

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 ¹¹  branch, and the same ¹²  for the six branches extending from the lampstand.

Exodus 25:35

25:35 with a bud under the first ¹³  two branches from it, and a bud under the next ¹⁴  two branches from it, and a bud under the third ¹⁵  two branches from it, according to the six branches that extend 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 ¹⁶  branch, and the same ¹⁷  for the six branches that were extending from the lampstand.

[25:31]  ¹ sn Clearly the point here is to provide light in the tent for access to God. He provided for his worshipers a light for the way to God, but he also wanted them to provide oil for the lamp to ensure that the light would not go out. Verses 31-36 describe the piece. It was essentially one central shaft, with three branches on either side turned out and upward. The stem and the branches were ornamented every so often with gold that was formed into the shape of the calyx and corolla of the almond flower. On top of the central shaft and the six branches were the lamps.

[25:31]  ² tn The word is מְנֹרָה (mÿnorah) – here in construct to a following genitive of material. The main piece was one lampstand, but there were seven lamps on the shaft and its branches. See E. Goodenough, “The Menorah among the Jews of the Roman World,” HUCA 23 (1950/51): 449-92.

[25:31]  ³ sn U. Cassuto (Exodus, 342-44) says that the description “the cups, knobs and flowers” is explained in vv. 32-36 as three decorations in the form of a cup, shaped like an almond blossom, to be made on one branch. Every cup will have two parts, (a) a knob, that is, the receptacle at the base of the blossom, and (b) a flower, which is called the corolla, so that each lamp rests on top of a flower.

[25:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “will be from/of it”; the referent (“the same piece” of wrought metal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:32]  ¹ tn Heb “from the sides of it.”

[25:32]  ² tn Heb “from the second side.”

[37:17]  ¹ tn Heb “from it”; the referent (“the same piece” of wrought metal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[35:14]  ¹ tn “for” has been supplied.

[40:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and you will set in order its setting” or “arrange its arrangement.” See 25:29-30 for items that belonged on the table.

[39:37]  ¹ tn Possibly meaning “pure gold lampstand.”

[25:33]  ¹ tn The text uses “one” again; “the one…the one” means “the one…and the next” in the distributive sense.

[25:33]  ² tn Heb “thus.”

[25:35]  ¹ tn For clarity the phrase “the first” has been supplied.

[25:35]  ² tn For clarity the phrase “the next” has been supplied.

[25:35]  ³ tn For clarity the phrase “the third” has been supplied.

[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.”

[37:19]  ² tn Heb “thus for six branches….”