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Exodus 27:10

in Exodus 27

with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

KJV

And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

This verse in Exodus 27

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

make the court of the tabernacle

on Exodus 27:9-13

The word court occurs here for the first time in Scripture, and what it names is a wall of plain white linen a hundred cubits long by fifty broad. Its pillars stand in sockets of brass and are hooked and filleted with silver, so the perimeter repeats the tent's own order of metals with the plainest at the ground. Three sides get their hangings and their pillars counted out, and the east side is given only its width, because the gate goes there and verses 14 to 16 divide it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the court of the tabernacle--The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle.

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

[AND THEIR FILLETS.] The meaning of chashukehem (their fillets) is their attachments, the hooks being attached to the pillars.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 27:10:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וְעַמֻּדָ֣יוand pillars its

    veamudavH5982111 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֔יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242315 times

  • וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥םand bases their

    veadneihemH13457 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֖יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242315 times

  • נְחֹ֑שֶׁת[will be] bronze

    nechoshetH5178140 times

  • וָוֵ֧י[the] hooks of

    vaveiH205313 times

  • הָעַמֻּדִ֛יםthe pillars

    haamudimH5982111 times

  • וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖םand bands their

    vachashukeihemH28388 times

  • כָּֽסֶף׃[will be] silver

    kasefH3701403 times

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

The walk

3 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

    Jeremiah 52:21

    Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 25:17

      Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar.

    • 1 Kings 7:15–21

      He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

    • 2 Chronicles 3:15–17

      In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.

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