OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 25:33

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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 lamp stand;

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Verse 33. Cups. Hebrew “cups which produce almonds or nuts;” that is three buds of flowers, out of which comes the stalk, as fruit does from the flower. The Hebrew Greek and Lat. languages use the word chalice, or cup, for a flower full-blown. The height of this candlestick is undetermined; but it would not exceed five feet.

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