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Exodus 26:33

in Exodus 26

And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shalt bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

KJV

And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

This verse in Exodus 26

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 9.9.3 · Written before 253.

If the ancient custom of sacrifices is clear to you, let us see what these things also contain according to the mystical understanding. You heard that there were two sanctuaries, one, as it were, visible and open to the priests; the other, as it were, invisible and inaccessible. With the exception of the high priest alone, the others were outside.

This site's exposition

make a vail of blue

on Exodus 26:31-33

The vail carries cherubims like the innermost curtain, and it does one job, which is to divide the holy place from the most holy. Cherubims stand again where the way is closed, as they did at Eden in Genesis 3:24. Matthew 27:51 reports this curtain torn from the top to the bottom at the death of Jesus, and Hebrews 10:20 calls the new and living way one that runs through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And thou shall hang up the vail under the taches,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

We have not boldness to enter into the holiest, in all acts of devotion, by the blood of Jesus, yet such as obliges us to a holy reverence and a humble sense of our distance. Another veil was for the outer door of the tabernacle,

The words behind it

20 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.

  • וְנָתַתָּ֣הand you will put

    venatatahH54142011 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַפָּרֹכֶת֮the curtain

    haparokhetH653225 times

  • תַּ֣חַתunder

    tachatH8478505 times

  • הַקְּרָסִים֒the hooks

    hakerasimH716510 times

  • וְהֵבֵאתָ֥and you will bring

    vehevetaH9352568 times

  • שָׁ֙מָּה֙there <towards>

    shamahH8033834 times

  • מִבֵּ֣יתfrom inside

    mibeitH10042046 times

  • לַפָּרֹ֔כֶתto the curtain

    laparokhetH653225 times

  • אֵ֖ת<obj.>

    ʾetH85310935 times

  • אֲר֣וֹן[the] ark of

    ʾaronH727202 times

  • הָעֵד֑וּתthe testimony

    haedutH571559 times

  • וְהִבְדִּילָ֤הand it will separate

    vehivdilahH914

  • הַפָּרֹ֙כֶת֙the curtain

    haparokhetH653225 times

  • לָכֶ֔םfor <the> you

    lakhem

  • בֵּ֣יןbetween

    beinH996407 times

  • הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁthe holy place

    hakodeshH6944469 times

  • וּבֵ֖יןand between

    uveinH996407 times

  • קֹ֥דֶשׁ[the] holy place of

    kodeshH6944469 times

  • הַקֳּדָשִֽׁים׃the holy places

    hakodashimH6944469 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

    Leviticus 16:2

    And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he…

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 10:19–20

      Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 30:10

      Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar…

    • 1 Kings 8:10–12

      And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD

    • Hebrews 9:25

      Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

    • Hebrews 9:7–8

      But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.

  • Through

    Exodus 40:21

    Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 40:3

      Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.

  • Through

    Exodus 25:16

    And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 31:26

      “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

    • 1 Kings 8:9

      There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out…

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 John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 9.9.3 and Sir Robert Anderson, Types in Hebrews.