^{17 Ref} Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal:

¹⁸ It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other;

¹⁹ Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches;

^{20 Ref} And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower;

^{21 Ref} And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it.

^{22 Ref} The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold.