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Exodus 36:32

in Exodus 36

five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.

KJV

And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.

This verse in Exodus 36

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

He also made five crossbars of acacia wood

on Exodus 36:31-34

Five bars a side lock the gilded boards into one wall. The frame is pinned and still built to come apart. Numbers 4:31 gives its boards, bars, pillars and sockets to the sons of Merari to carry.

This site's exposition

five for those on the other side

The count carries out 26:26-27, fifteen crossbars in all. The west wall, eight frames wide, receives the same five bars as each long wall of twenty frames.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

In the building of a house there is a great deal of work about the doors and partitions. In the tabernacle these were answerable to the rest of the fabric; there were curtains for doors, and veils for partitions. There was a veil made for a partition between the holy place, and the most holy,

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

[TO PASS THROUGH.] The word livro’ach (to pass through) is a kal. It has the same meaning as the hifil mavri’ach (pass through).
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 36:33:1, 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

12 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.

  • וַחֲמִשָּׁ֣הand five

    vachamishahH2568 →343 times

  • בְרִיחִ֔םbars

    verichimH1280 →40 times

  • לְקַרְשֵׁ֥יfor [the] frames of

    lekarsheiH7175 →51 times

  • צֶֽלַע־[the] side of

    tzela'-H6763 →40 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ןthe tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908 →139 times

  • הַשֵּׁנִ֑ית<the> second

    hashenitH8145 →156 times

  • וַחֲמִשָּׁ֤הand five

    vachamishahH2568 →343 times

  • בְרִיחִם֙bars

    verichimH1280 →40 times

  • לְקַרְשֵׁ֣יfor [the] frames of

    lekarsheiH7175 →51 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ןthe tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908 →139 times

  • לַיַּרְכָתַ֖יִםfor the innermost parts

    laiyarkhatayimH3411 →28 times

  • יָֽמָּה׃west -ward

    yamahH3220 →396 times

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

The walk

5 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 26:26

    You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

    it leads to

    • Numbers 4:31

      This is the duty for all their service at the Tent of Meeting: to carry the frames of the tabernacle with its crossbars, posts, and bases,

    • Exodus 36:31–38

      He also made five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

    • Ephesians 4:16

      From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.

    • Numbers 3:36

      The duties assigned to the sons of Merari were the tabernacle’s frames, crossbars, posts, bases, and all its equipment—all the service for these items,

    • Colossians 2:19

      He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.