Exodus 25:34,35

There were also four similar cups in the candlestick itself, i.e. in its central shaft. Vv.34, 35 are commonly understood to mean that there were four cups altogether in the central shaft, one towards the top, and the other three so placed that the -knop" was just below the points where the three pairs of branches diverged from the central shaft; but (observe -and" at the beginning of v.35) Kennedy (p. 664 a) may be right in supposing the meaning to be that there were to be four -knops and flowers" combined on the upper and lower parts of the shaft, and three -knops" alone under the points where the three pairs of branches diverged from it.