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Exodus 36:13

in Exodus 36

He also made fifty gold clasps to join the curtains together, so that the tabernacle was a unit.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was one.

KJV

And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.

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This verse in Exodus 36

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains

on Exodus 36:8-13

The instruction of chapters 25 to 31 began at the ark and worked outward. The building works inward, from the tent here to the ark of chapter 37.

This site's exposition

fifty gold clasps

The clasps carry out 26:6, which ends with the same result, that the tabernacle will be a unit. Matthew Henry compares God's people to these coupled curtains, brought into the unity of the faith and built into a holy temple. Many pieces make one dwelling.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

On the Tabernacle 2.2, AT EXODUS 26:6 · Written before 735.

proposed

Since the number fifty designates true rest in the Holy Spirit, and a ring seems to have neither beginning nor end, and gold is the most precious of metals, excelling all others in its brightness, what is expressed in the fifty golden rings except the …

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

[THE LOOPS.] The tav of ha-lula’ot (the loops) 36 Lula’ot is spelled lamed, vav, lamed, alef, vav, tav. indicates the feminine.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 36:12:1, 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. 1 further source is cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וַיַּ֕עַשׂand he made

    vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֖יםfifty

    chamishimH2572 →163 times

  • קַרְסֵ֣יhooks of

    karseiH7165 →10 times

  • זָהָ֑בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • וַיְחַבֵּ֨רand he joined

    vaychaberH2266 →29 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַיְרִעֹ֜תthe curtains

    hayriotH3407 →54 times

  • אַחַ֤תone

    ʾachatH259 →971 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אַחַת֙one

    ʾachatH259 →971 times

  • בַּקְּרָסִ֔יםwith the hooks

    bakerasimH7165 →10 times

  • וַֽיְהִ֥יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ןthe tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908 →139 times

  • אֶחָֽד׃ סone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

2 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

    1 Corinthians 12:20

    As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 12:14

      For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.

    • 1 Corinthians 12:12

      The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.

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 36 →

This page draws on Bede, On the Tabernacle 2.2, AT EXODUS 26:6; 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.

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