Meanwhile, Jacob kept tending the rest of Laban's flock. Jacob took branches from white poplar trees, freshly cut almond trees, and some other trees, stripped off their bark to make white streaks, and uncovered the white part inside the branches.

Three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyxes and flowers are to be on one branch and three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyxes and flowers are to be on the other branch, and so for the six branches extending from the lamp stand.

"On the lamp stand itself there are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms with their calyxes and flowers.

Three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyxes and flowers were on one branch and three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyxes and flowers were on the other branch, and so on for the six branches extending from the lamp stand.

On the lamp stand itself there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms each with their calyxes and flowers.

They traveled from Dibon-gad, then rested in Almon-diblathaim.

They traveled from Almon-diblathaim, then rested in the mountains of Abarim, facing Nebo.

Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands, for a total of four cities.

At that time they will fear climbing heights and dangers along the road while the almond tree will blossom, and the grasshopper is weighed down. Desire will cease, because the person goes to his eternal home, and mourners will gather in the marketplace.

This message from the LORD came to me, asking, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I replied, "I see an almond branch."