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Exodus 30:17

in Exodus 30

And the LORD said to Moses,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

This verse in Exodus 30

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

And the LORD said to Moses

on Exodus 30:17-21

The basin is described by its metal and use alone, the one piece whose size the text never fixes. The washing of 29:4 was once, while this washing of “hands and feet” comes at every approach, “so that they will not die”.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

But many of the Jewish writers, and others from them, are of opinion that it was to be an annual tribute, only it was begun when Moses first numbered the people. This was that tribute-money which Christ paid, for fear of offending his adversaries ( Matt. xvii.

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And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Again, at another time, and upon another subject: saying, as follows.

The words behind it

5 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.

  • וַיְדַבֵּ֥רand he spoke

    vaydaberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֥הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • לֵּאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

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

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 (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.