Six branches extended from the sides of the lampstand — three on one side and three on the other. Three branches per side, six branches total from the central shaft — exactly as Exodus 25:32 specified. The symmetric flowering structure of the menorah emerges from the hammered gold: three arms reaching out from each side of the central shaft. John 1:9 says the true light gives light to everyone — the lampstand whose seven lamps will fill the sanctuary with perpetual light is the type of the one who is the permanent, universal light.

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