LAMPSTAND — a single stem of hammered gold branching into six arms, seven lamps total, built to Moses's own tavnit like everything else in the tabernacle (25:31-40, already on these pages) and constructed exactly so at Exodus 37:17-24 (already on these pages). Rendered 'lampstand' throughout this translation rather than the archaic 'candlestick' (KJV/Geneva) — there is no candle anywhere in the description, only oil and wicks. Built at Exodus 25, made at Exodus 37, first lit by MOSES at the tabernacle's inauguration (Exodus 40:25, already on these pages), and handed over to AARON as a standing priestly duty at Numbers 8:1-4 (already on these pages) — its seven lamps angled 'toward the front,' most likely so their light falls across the table of the bread of the presence rather than scattering against the tabernacle's own walls. The image later multiplies: John's vision shows not one seven-branched menorah but SEVEN separate golden lampstands, one per congregation (Revelation 1:12-13, 20, already on these pages) — the tabernacle's single light-bearing furniture, split into many, standing in for the whole church. → first discussed at Exod 25:31