The Menorah and The Number Seven

The Menorah is described in the Bible as the seven-branched candelabrum made of gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by Moses in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem.

A ceremonial seven-branched candelabrum of the Jewish Temple symbolizing the seven days of the Creation.

The lamps of the menorah were lit daily from fresh, consecrated olive oil and burned from evening until morning, according to Exodus 27.

The menorah consisted of a base and a shaft with six branches, beaten out of solid gold. The six branches curved to the height of the central shaft so that all seven lamps at their apexes were in a straight line.

The symbolic meaning of the Number Seven reaches its apex in the Menorah, the seven-branched candlestick designed by God Himself to be a perpetual light in His Tabernacle. The Lord emphasized its Divine origin when He instructed Moses twice, to be sure to follow the pattern that He Himself revealed when they met for forty days on Mount Sinai. Exodus 40.

And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side. And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof. And they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was showed to thee on the mount. Exodus 25.

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