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Exodus 25:24

in Exodus 25

Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

KJV

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

This verse in Exodus 25

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

You are also to make a table of acacia wood

on Exodus 25:23-28

The table follows the ark's plan: acacia wood overlaid with gold, a gold molding, rings at the four legs and poles to carry it. Everything in the holy place is made to be carried, and Numbers 4 sets out who carries what.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold,....

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.

  • וְצִפִּיתָ֥and you will overlay

    vetzipitaH6823 →47 times

  • אֹת֖וֹ<obj.> it

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • זָהָ֣בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • טָה֑וֹרpure

    tahorH2889 →94 times

  • וְעָשִׂ֥יתָand you will make

    veasitaH6213 →2628 times

  • לּ֛וֹfor <the> it

    lo

  • זֵ֥רa molding of

    zerH2213 →10 times

  • זָהָ֖בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • סָבִֽיב׃all around

    savivH5439 →336 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 25:11

    Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 6:20

      The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.

    • Exodus 30:3

      Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.

    • 2 Chronicles 3:4

      The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

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.

This page draws on 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.