Zakharia 4:2-4
Konteks4:2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, 1 “I see a menorah of pure gold with a receptacle at the top and seven lamps, with fourteen pipes going to the lamps. 4:3 There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the receptacle and the other on the left.” 2 4:4 Then I asked the messenger who spoke with me, “What are these, 3 sir?”
[4:2] 1 tc The present translation (along with most other English versions) follows the reading of the Qere and many ancient versions, “I said,” as opposed to the MT Kethib “he said.”
[4:3] 2 sn The vision apparently describes two olive trees providing olive oil by pipes to a large basin atop the menorah. From this basin two pipes extend to each of the seven lamps of the menorah, for a total of fourteen pipes in all. See vv. 11-12.
[4:4] 3 sn Here these must refer to the lamps, since the identification of the olive trees is left to vv. 11-14.