Placing the Lamps

When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting
to speak with the Lord,
he heard the voice speaking to him
from between the two cherubim
above the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony.
And he spoke with Him.

The Lord said to Moses,
"Speak to Aaron and say to him,
'When you set up the seven lamps,
they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.'"

Aaron did so; he set up the lamps
so that they faced forward on the lampstand,
just as the Lord commanded Moses.
This how the lampstand was made;
It was made of hammered gold -
from its base to its blossoms.
The lampstand was made exactly
like the pattern the Lord had shown Moses.

(Numbers 7:89; 8:1-4)