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Exodus 36:33

in Exodus 36

He made the central crossbar to run through the center of the frames, from one end to the other.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.

KJV

And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.

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This verse in Exodus 36

Commentary

4 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

the central crossbar

The central crossbar carries out 26:28, and the verse sets it through the center of the frames. Bede places a bar high across the ten cubits of the tent's width, from the top of the boards on one side to the other.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

On the Tabernacle 2.10 · Written before 735.

proposed

Here, therefore, we must assume that a bar was stretched across the ten cubits of the width of the tabernacle, from the top of the boards in front to the top on the other side. [It was] firmly positioned with a head on the boards …

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

[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

11 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.

  • וַיַּ֖עַשׂand he made

    vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַבְּרִ֣יחַthe bar

    haberiachH1280 →40 times

  • הַתִּיכֹ֑ן<the> middle

    hatikhonH8484 →

  • לִבְרֹ֙חַ֙to pass through

    livroachH1272 →63 times

  • בְּת֣וֹךְin [the] middle of

    betokhH8432 →418 times

  • הַקְּרָשִׁ֔יםthe frames

    hakerashimH7175 →51 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַקָּצֶ֖הthe end

    hakatzehH7097 →97 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַקָּצֶֽה׃the end

    hakatzehH7097 →97 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.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 36 →

This page draws on Bede, On the Tabernacle 2.10; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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