8:4 This is how the lampstand was made: 1 It was beaten work in gold; 2 from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
1 tn The Hebrew text literally has “and this is the work of the lampstand,” but that rendering does not convey the sense that it is describing how it was made.
2 sn The idea is that it was all hammered from a single plate of gold.