◄ Exodus 37:20 ►
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Good News Translation
The shaft of the lampstand had four decorative flowers shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.

New Revised Standard Version
On the lampstand itself there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyxes and petals.

Contemporary English Version
and four on the stem.

New American Bible
On the menorah there were four cups, shaped like almond blossoms, with their knobs and petals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a nut, and bowls withal at every one, and lilies:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a nut, and bowls withal at every one, and lilies:

almonds

Exodus 25:33 Three cups as it were nuts to every branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily: and three cups likewise of the fashion of nuts in the other branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily. Such shall be the work of the six branches, that are to come out from the shaft:

Numbers 17:8 He returned on the following day, and found that the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded: and that the buds swelling it hid bloomed blossoms, which spreading the leaves, were formed into almonds.

Ecclesiastes 12:5 And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.

Jeremiah 1:11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: I see a rod watching.

Context
The Lampstand
…19Three cups in manner of a nut on each branch, and bowls withal and lilies: and three cups of the fashion of a nut in another branch, and bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six branches, that went out from the shaft of the candlestick was equal. 20And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a nut, and bowls withal at every one, and lilies:21And bowls under two branches in three places, which together made six branches going out from one shaft.…
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 25:34
And in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in the manner of a nut, and at every one bowls and lilies.

Exodus 37:19
Three cups in manner of a nut on each branch, and bowls withal and lilies: and three cups of the fashion of a nut in another branch, and bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six branches, that went out from the shaft of the candlestick was equal.

Exodus 37:21
And bowls under two branches in three places, which together made six branches going out from one shaft.

Exodus 37:19
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