“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold.  The base and the shaft of the lamp stand shall be made of hammered work.  Its cups, its calyxes, and its petals shall be of one piece with it.  There shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lamp stand out of one side of it and three branches of the lamp stand out of the other side of it.  Three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on the other branch.  So there are six branches going out of the lamp stand.  On the lamp stand itself four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals.  There shall be a calyx of one piece with it under the first pair of branches, a calyx of one piece with it under the next pair of branches, and a calyx of one piece with it under the last pair of branches.  The six branches go out of the lamp stand.  Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one hammered piece of pure gold.   You shall make the seven lamps for it.  The lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it.  Its snuffers and trays shall be of pure gold.  It, and all these utensils, shall be made from a talent of pure gold.  See that you make them according to the pattern for them, which will be shown to you on the mountain.”

The lamp stand should be pure gold.  It is a golden candlestick with 7 branches of one piece of gold hammered into the various shapes, with cups, calyxes, and petals, like a flower.  Three of the branches are on each side with the middle stem, so as to look like a flower.  These golden calyxes are like a group of sepals, usually green, around the outside of a flower that encloses and protects the flower bud, around each cup.  The snuffers and trays should also be pure gold.  The pattern comes from what will be shown to you on the mountain.