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Exodus 25:2

in Exodus 25

“Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for me an offering: of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take my offering.

KJV

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

This verse in Exodus 25

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

That they bring me an offering - The offering here mentioned is the תרומה terumah, a kind of free-will offering, consisting of any thing that was necessary for the occasion. It signifies properly any thing that was lifted up, the heave-offering, because in presenting it to God it was lifted up to be laid on his altar; but see Clarke on Exo 29:27 (note).

This site's exposition

the Lord spake unto Moses

on Exodus 25:1-2

The tabernacle is delivered in seven divine speeches across chapters 25 to 31, and this is the first of them. The seventh is the sabbath at 31:12, which is where the seventh day falls in Genesis 1 and 2. What God asks for first is an offering taken only from a man who gives it willingly with his heart, so the dwelling place starts with a gift nobody is taxed for.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Speak unto the children of Israel,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

bring me an offering of every man that giveth it willingly, &c.--Having declared allegiance to God as their sovereign, they were expected to contribute to His state, as other subjects to their kings; and the "offering" required of them was not to be imposed as a tax, but to come from their own loyal and liberal feelings.

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The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • דַּבֵּר֙speak

    daberH16961141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • וְיִקְחוּ־so they may take

    veyikchu-H3947966 times

  • לִ֖יfor <the> me

    li

  • תְּרוּמָ֑הa contribution

    terumahH864176 times

  • מֵאֵ֤תfrom with

    meetH854929 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H36055413 times

  • אִישׁ֙person

    ʾishH3761663 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhom

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • יִדְּבֶ֣נּוּit will impel him

    yidevenuH506817 times

  • לִבּ֔וֹheart his

    liboH3820595 times

  • תִּקְח֖וּyou will take

    tikchuH3947966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • תְּרוּמָתִֽי׃contribution my

    terumatiH864176 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 9:7

    Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 8:12

      For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

    • Acts 20:35

      In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

    • 1 Chronicles 29:17

      I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are…

    • Proverbs 11:25

      A generous soul will prosper, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.

    • Deuteronomy 15:7–11

      If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or…

  • Through

    Ezra 2:68

    When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 9:7

      Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Nehemiah 11:2

    And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.

    it leads to

    • Judges 5:9

      My heart is with the princes of Israel, with the volunteers among the people. Bless the LORD!

  • Through

    Ezra 1:6

    And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.

    it leads to

    • Ezra 1:4

      And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.