Exodus 28:13
in Exodus 28Fashion gold filigree settings
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ASV
And thou shalt make settings of gold,
KJV
And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
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This verse in Exodus 28
Commentary
5 notes on this verseOuches of gold - משבצת mishbetsoth, strait places, sockets to insert the stones in, from שבץ shabats, to close, enclose, straiten. Socket, in this place, would be a more proper translation, as ouch cannot be traced up to any legitimate authority. It appears sometimes to signify a hook, or some mode of attaching things together.
This site's exposition
thou shalt make ouches of gold
on Exodus 28:13-16
Gold settings and chains of wreathen work hold the breastplate, and every fitting that touches it is pure gold. The piece is foursquare and doubled, which makes it a pouch rather than a flat plate, and the doubling is what verse 30 depends on. A span is half a cubit, so the whole thing sits inside the width of a man's chest.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Righteousness is the girdle of his loins. He is girt with strength for the work of our salvation. And as Aaron had the names of all Israel upon his shoulders in precious stones, so He presents to himself and to his Father a glorious church, Eph. v, 27.
And thou shalt make ouches of gold. Or sockets of gold, to put the two onyx stones in, Exo 28:11 for of other ouches we read not, excepting the enclosings, in which the twelve stones of the breastplate were set, Exo 28:20 and these are again mentioned because of the chains to be fastened to them, of which in the following verse.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The ephod was fastened by a girdle of the same costly materials, that is, dyed, embroidered, and wrought with threads of gold. It was about a handbreadth wide and wound twice round the upper part of the waist; it fastened in front, the ends hanging down at great length (Re 1:13).
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
CHAINS. The middle root letter has been doubled in sharsherot (chains). 134 The original root of sharsherot is shin, resh, shin.
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. 7 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
3 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ | veasita | and you will make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| מִשְׁבְּצֹ֖ת | mishbetzot | filigree settings of | H4865 → | 9 times |
| זָהָֽב׃ | zahav | gold | H2091 → | 389 times |
וְעָשִׂ֥יתָand you will make
veasitaH6213 →2628 times
מִשְׁבְּצֹ֖תfiligree settings of
mishbetzotH4865 →9 times
זָהָֽב׃gold
zahavH2091 →389 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.