Exodus 37:17-18 ▼

17 Then he made the lampstand (menorah) of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work, its base and its [center] shaft; its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers were all of one piece with it.

18 There were six branches coming out of the sides of the lampstand, three branches from one side of the center shaft and three branches from the other side of it;