¹⁵ the weight of the golden ^(A)lampstands and their lamps, the weight of gold for each lampstand and its lamps, the weight of silver for a lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand in the service,

The Golden Lampstand

^31 (A)“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it. ³² And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; ³³ three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. ³⁴ And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, ³⁵ and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand. ³⁶ Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold. ³⁷ You shall make seven lamps for it. And the lamps ^(B)shall be set up so as ^(C)to give light on the space in front of it. ³⁸ Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold. ³⁹ It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent^[a] of pure gold.

²⁰ As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and ^(A)the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and ^(B)the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

To the Church in Ephesus

2 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of ^(C)him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, ^(D)who walks among the seven golden lampstands.

¹² Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw ^(A)seven golden lampstands, ¹³ and in the midst of the lampstands ^(B)one like ^(C)a son of man, ^(D)clothed with a long robe and ^(E)with a golden sash around his chest.

¹¹ Then I said to him, “What are these ^(A)two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?” ¹² And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these ^(B)two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil^[a] is poured out?” ¹³ He said to me, ^(C)“Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.” ¹⁴ Then he said, ^(D)“These are the two anointed ones^[b] who stand by ^(E)the Lord of the whole earth.”

² And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, ^(A)a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and ^(B)seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it. ³ And there are ^(C)two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”

⁷ And he made ten golden lampstands ^(A)as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

¹⁹ Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.