Exodus 25:32

32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the menorah out of its one side, and three branches of the menorah out of its other side;

Exodus 25:32 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 25:32

And six branches shall come out of the sides of it
Out of the trunk or shaft, being beaten out of it:

three branches of the candlestick out of one side, and three branches
of the candlestick out of the other side;
Jarchi takes what we render the "shaft" to be the lower part of the candlestick, from whence three feet went out below; and the "branch" or "cane", for it is in the singular number in the preceding verse, he takes to be the middle branch or trunk, that went up from the middle of the foot upwards, and upon it was the middle lamp, in the form of a censer, to pour oil into the midst of it; and the six branches went out from the sides of that, here and there drawn obliquely, and went up to the height of the candlestick, which is the middle branch or cane; and they went up from the midst of that middle cane, one above another, the lowermost long, and that above it shorter than that, and the uppermost shorter than that; for the height of the tops of them were equal to the height of the middle cane, that is, the seventh, from whence the six went out.

Exodus 25:32 In-Context

30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

31 "You shall make a menorah of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the menorah be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the menorah out of its one side, and three branches of the menorah out of its other side;

33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the menorah;

34 and in the menorah four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;