Exodus 28:36 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 28:36

You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.

KJV

And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Holiness becomes his house and household. The high priest must be sequestered from all pollution, and consecrated to God and to his service and honour, and so must all his ministrations be. All that attend in God's house must have Holiness to the Lord engraven upon their foreheads, that is, they must be holy, devoted to the Lord, and designing his glory in all they do.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ	ve.'a.Si.ta	and you will make	H6213 →
צִּ֖יץ	tzitz	a plate of	H6731 →
זָהָ֣ב	za.Hav	gold	H2091 →
טָה֑וֹר	ta.Hor	pure	H2889 →
וּפִתַּחְתָּ֤	u.fi.tach.Ta	and you will engrave	H6605 →
עָלָיו֙	'a.Lav	on it	H5921 →
פִּתּוּחֵ֣י	pi.tu.Chei	[the] engravings of	H6603 →
חֹתָ֔ם	cho.Tam	a seal	H2368 →
קֹ֖דֶשׁ	Ko.desh	holiness	H6944 →
לַֽיהוָֽה׃	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
leads to
- Revelation 5:10
  You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 19:5–6
  Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Deuteronomy 7:6
  For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of…
- Revelation 1:6
  who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
- Isaiah 61:6
  But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their…
Through
Zechariah 14:20
On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the…
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 3:16–17
  Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
- Exodus 39:30
  They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
- 1 Peter 2:5
  you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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