He said to me, *What do you see?* I said, *I have seen, and behold, a menorah all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden menorot. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven menorot are seven assemblies.
*To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: *He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden menorot says these things:
After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a shofar speaking with me, was one saying, *Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.*