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Exodus 38:5

in Exodus 38

At the four corners of the bronze grate he cast four rings as holders for the poles.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be places for the staves.

KJV

And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

This verse in Exodus 38

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

On this all their sacrifices were offered, and it was this which, being sanctified itself for this purpose by the divine appointment, sanctified the gift that was in faith offered on it. Christ was himself the altar to his own sacrifice of atonement, and so he is to all our sacrifices of acknowledgment.

This site's exposition

made all the vessels of the altar

on Exodus 38:3-7

The altar is hollow with boards rather than solid, and it carries rings and staves like the ark inside the vail. Everything in the court is built to be taken down and carried, and Numbers 4:13-14 gives the order for covering this altar and bearing it on the march. Its tools are brass like the altar itself, so nothing of gold is handled where the people stand.

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.

  • וַיִּצֹ֞קand he cast

    vaiyitzokH333250 times

  • אַרְבַּ֧עfour

    ʾarba'H702318 times

  • טַבָּעֹ֛תrings

    tabaotH288549 times

  • בְּאַרְבַּ֥עon [the] four

    bearba'H702318 times

  • הַקְּצָוֹ֖תthe ends

    haketzavotH7117

  • לְמִכְבַּ֣רfor [the] grating of

    lemikhbarH43456 times

  • הַנְּחֹ֑שֶׁת<the> bronze

    hanechoshetH5178140 times

  • בָּתִּ֖יםholders

    batimH10042046 times

  • לַבַּדִּֽים׃for the poles

    labadimH905200 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

    Exodus 27:4

    Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 35:16

      the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;

    • Exodus 38:4–5

      He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

    • Exodus 25:12

      Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.

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; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.