And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which Yahweh had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as it was revealed to Moses when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.