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Exodus 25:14

in Exodus 25

Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou shalt put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, wherewith to bear the ark.

KJV

And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

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This verse in Exodus 25

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark

on Exodus 25:14-16

The poles go in and are never to be taken out, which keeps the ark ready to move at any hour. Into it goes the testimony, the two tablets God writes at 31:18 and Moses breaks at 32:19.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

And these holy places made with hands were the figures of the true, Heb. ix, 24. The gospel-church is the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man, Heb. viii, 2. The body of Christ, in and by which he made atonement, was the greater and more perfect tabernacle, Heb. ix, 11.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

11 ) or witness, Acts vii. The gospel of Christ is also called a testimony or witness, Matt. xxiv. That the tables of the law were carefully preserved in the ark for the purpose, to teach us to make much of the word of God, and to hide it in our hearts, in our innermost thoughts, as the ark was placed in the holy of holies.

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And thou shall put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

In the rings that are on the sides of the ark. 120 See verse.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 25:15:1, 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

11 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.

  • וְהֵֽבֵאתָ֤and you will put

    vehevetaH935 →2568 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַבַּדִּים֙the poles

    habadimH905 →200 times

  • בַּטַּבָּעֹ֔תin the rings

    batabaotH2885 →49 times

  • עַ֖לon

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • צַלְעֹ֣ת[the] sides of

    tzalotH6763 →40 times

  • הָאָרֹ֑ןthe ark

    haaronH727 →202 times

  • לָשֵׂ֥אתto carry

    lasetH5375 →656 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאָרֹ֖ןthe ark

    haaronH727 →202 times

  • בָּהֶֽם׃by <the> them

    bahem

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

Related verses

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Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 25 →

This page draws on 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 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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