²⁰ Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times.

³¹ And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

³² It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other.

³³ Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches.

³⁴ And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower:

³⁵ And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it.

³⁶ The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold.

³⁷ Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it.

³⁷ The support for the lights, with the vessels for the lights to be put in their places on it, and all its vessels, and the oil for the lights;

¹ And the Lord said to Moses,

² Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,

³ Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your generations.

⁴ Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.

⁹ But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?

⁵ You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.

¹¹ And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?

¹² And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?

¹³ And he said in answer to me, Have you no knowledge what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

¹⁴ And he said, These are the two sons of oil, whose place is by the Lord of all the earth.

⁴ These are the two olive-trees and the two lights, which are before the Lord of the earth.