Exodus 37:17
Good News Translation
He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made its base and its shaft of hammered gold; its decorative flowers, including buds and petals, formed one piece with it.

New Revised Standard Version
He also made the lampstand of pure gold. The base and the shaft of the lampstand were made of hammered work; its cups, its calyxes, and its petals were of one piece with it.

Contemporary English Version
Bezalel made a lampstand of pure gold. The whole lampstand, including its decorative flowers, was made from a single piece of hammered gold,

New American Bible
The menorah was made of pure beaten gold—its shaft and branches—with its cups and knobs and petals springing directly from it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also the candlestick of beaten work of the finest gold. from the shaft whereof its branches, its cups, and bowls, and lilies came out:

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He made also the candlestick of beaten work of the finest gold. from the shaft whereof its branches, its cups, and bowls, and lilies came out:

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Exodus 25:31-39 Thou shalt make also a candlestick of beaten work, of the finest gold, the shaft thereof, and the branches, the cups, and the bowls, and the lilies going forth from it. . . .

Exodus 40:24,25 He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the testimony, over against the table on the south side, . . .

Leviticus 24:4 They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord continually.

1 Chronicles 28:15 He gave also gold for the golden candlesticks, and their lamps, according to the dimensions of every candlestick, and the lamps thereof. In like manner also he gave silver by weight for the silver candlesticks, and for their lamps according to the diversity of the dimensions of them.

2 Chronicles 13:11 And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning and evening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the law, and the loaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us the golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in the evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you have forsaken.

Zechariah 4:2,11 And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and the seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that were upon the top thereof. . . .

Matthew 5:15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.

John 1:4-9 In him was life: and the life was the light of men. . . .

Philippians 2:15 That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Hebrews 9:2 For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks and the table and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the Holy.

Revelation 1:12-20 And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks: . . .

Revelation 2:1-5 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write: These things saith he who holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: . . .

Context
The Lampstand
17He made also the candlestick of beaten work of the finest gold. from the shaft whereof its branches, its cups, and bowls, and lilies came out:18Six on the two sides: three branches on one side, and three on the other.…
Cross References
Exodus 25:31
Thou shalt make also a candlestick of beaten work, of the finest gold, the shaft thereof, and the branches, the cups, and the bowls, and the lilies going forth from it.

Exodus 31:8
And the table and the vessels thereof, the most pure candlestick with the vessels thereof, and the altars of incense,

Exodus 37:16
And the vessels for the divers uses of the table, dishes, bowls, and cups, and censers of pure gold, wherein the libations are to be offered.

Exodus 37:18
Six on the two sides: three branches on one side, and three on the other.

Leviticus 24:4
They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord continually.

Numbers 8:4
Now this was the work of the candlestick, it was of beaten gold, both the shaft in the middle, and all that came out of both sides of the branches: according to the pattern which the Lord had shewn to Moses, so he made the candlestick.

Exodus 37:16
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