Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, ¹  three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. ² 

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.

“Then I thought, ‘I will die in my own home, ¹  my days as numerous as the grains of sand. ²