Commentary for Menachot 196:7
תנו רבנן עשר מנורות עשה שלמה שנאמר (דברי הימים ב ד, ב) ויעש את המנורות הזהב עשר כמשפט ויתן בהיכל חמשה מימין וחמשה משמאל
Our Rabbis taught: King Solomon also made ten candlesticks, as it is written, And he made the ten candlesticks of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the Temple, five on the right hand and five on the left.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Chron. IV, 7.');"><sup>10</sup></span> If you were to say that five were on the right side of the [Temple] entrance and five on the left side, we should then have candlesticks set on the north side [of the Temple], but the Torah says, And the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle towards the south.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXVI, 35.');"><sup>11</sup></span>
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