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Exodus 26:29

in Exodus 26

Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

KJV

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

This verse in Exodus 26

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Thou shalt overlay the boards with gold - It is not said how thick the gold was by which these boards, etc., were overlaid; it was no doubt done with gold plates, but these must have been very thin, else the boards, etc., must have been insupportably heavy. The gold was probably something like our gold leaf, but not brought to so great a degree of tenuity.

This site's exposition

bars of shittim wood

on Exodus 26:26-29

Five bars a side hold the boards together, and the middle bar runs from end to end while the others do not. Everything the eye would meet is overlaid with gold, the boards, the rings and the bars alike. The whole frame is built to be taken apart and carried, which Numbers 4 sets out in detail.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

But the builders of the gospel church said, Silver and gold have we none; and yet the glory of their building far exceeded that of the tabernacle, 2 Cor. iii. How much better is wisdom than gold!

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וְֽאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • הַקְּרָשִׁ֞יםthe frames

    hakerashimH717551 times

  • תְּצַפֶּ֣הyou will overlay

    tetzapehH682347 times

  • זָהָ֗בgold

    zahavH2091389 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • טַבְּעֹֽתֵיהֶם֙rings their

    tabeoteihemH288549 times

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֣הyou will make

    taasehH62132628 times

  • זָהָ֔בgold

    zahavH2091389 times

  • בָּתִּ֖יםholders

    batimH10042046 times

  • לַבְּרִיחִ֑םfor the bars

    laberichimH128040 times

  • וְצִפִּיתָ֥and you will overlay

    vetzipitaH682347 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַבְּרִיחִ֖םthe bars

    haberichimH128040 times

  • זָהָֽב׃gold

    zahavH2091389 times

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

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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; 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.