²⁰ "You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

³¹ "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

³² There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;

³³ three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;

³⁴ and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

³⁵ and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

³⁶ Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.

³⁷ You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

³⁷ the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

² "Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

³ Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

⁴ He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually.

⁹ But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?

⁵ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

¹¹ Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?"

¹² I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?"

¹³ He answered me, "Don't you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."

¹⁴ Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth."

⁴ These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before the Lord of the earth.