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Exodus 37:11

in Exodus 37

He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding around it.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.

KJV

And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.

This verse in Exodus 37

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

He also made the table of acacia wood

on Exodus 37:10-16

The table takes rings and staves like the ark, so every piece inside the holy place is built to be carried. Its bread waits until 40:23, where Moses sets it in order.

This site's exposition

a gold molding around it

The overlay and molding carry out 25:24. The same gold molding is given to the ark at verse 2 and to the incense altar at verse 26. John Wesley notes that the bread on this table was set out to be looked upon and eaten afterward only by the priests.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

He made a table out of acacia wood, two amohs long, one amoh wide, and one and one-half amohs high.
Targum · Onkelos Exodus 37:10, via Sefaria, Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

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.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַיְצַ֥ףand he overlaid

    vaytzafH6823 →47 times

  • אֹת֖וֹ<obj.> it

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • זָהָ֣בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • טָה֑וֹרpure

    tahorH2889 →94 times

  • וַיַּ֥עַשׂand he made

    vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times

  • ל֛וֹfor <the> it

    lo

  • זֵ֥רa molding of

    zerH2213 →10 times

  • זָהָ֖בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • סָבִֽיב׃all around

    savivH5439 →336 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; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.