Exodus 36:20
in Exodus 36Next, he constructed upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up.
KJV
And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
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This verse in Exodus 36
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood
on Exodus 36:20-26
Under the cloth stands a frame of acacia boards ten cubits high, and every board drops by two tenons into two sockets of silver. Chapter 26 ordered those sockets and this chapter counts them out, forty on the south side and forty on the north. Exodus 38:27 says where the silver came from, a hundred talents of atonement money gathered at half a shekel a head and cast at a talent to a socket, so the frame of the dwelling place stands on ransom money.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
In the building of a house there is a great deal of work about the doors and partitions. In the tabernacle these were answerable to the rest of the fabric; there were curtains for doors, and veils for partitions. There was a veil made for a partition between the holy place, and the most holy,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
And he made boards - See Clarke’s note on Exo 26:15, etc.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
La-ohel (for tent) means to serve as a tent. 40 La-ohel (for tent) literally means to tent. Hence I.E.’s interpretation.
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. 1 further source is cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּ֥עַשׂ | vaiyaas | and he made | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַקְּרָשִׁ֖ים | hakerashim | the frames | H7175 → | 51 times |
| לַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן | lamishkan | for the tabernacle | H4908 → | 139 times |
| עֲצֵ֥י | ʾatzei | wood<s> of | H6086 → | 328 times |
| שִׁטִּ֖ים | shitim | acacia | H7848 → | 28 times |
| עֹמְדִֽים׃ | ʾomedim | standing upright | H5975 → | 521 times |
וַיַּ֥עַשׂand he made
vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַקְּרָשִׁ֖יםthe frames
hakerashimH7175 →51 times
לַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ןfor the tabernacle
lamishkanH4908 →139 times
עֲצֵ֥יwood<s> of
ʾatzeiH6086 →328 times
שִׁטִּ֖יםacacia
shitimH7848 →28 times
עֹמְדִֽים׃standing upright
ʾomedimH5975 →521 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Numbers 25:1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:8
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
- Numbers 33:49
And there on the plains of Moab they camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim.
- Joshua 2:1
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
- Micah 6:5
My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
- Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
- 1 Corinthians 10:8
Through
Exodus 25:10And they are to construct an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
it leads to
- Hebrews 9:4
containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
- Exodus 37:1–3
Bezalel went on to construct the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- Deuteronomy 10:1–3
At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
- Hebrews 9:4
Where this verse is studied
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About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.