⁴ Now this was the work of the candlestick, it was of beaten gold, both the shaft in the middle, and all that came out of both sides of the branches: according to the pattern which the Lord had shewn to Moses, so he made the candlestick.

⁵ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

⁶ Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and thou shalt purify them,