Exodus 38:20
in Exodus 38All the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the surrounding courtyard were bronze.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
KJV
And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
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This verse in Exodus 38
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered
on Exodus 38:18-20
The courtyard's one door wears the veil's four materials, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It is twenty cubits wide in a wall a hundred long, marked by colour where all else is white.
This site's exposition
All the tent pegs
John Gill explains that the pegs held down the curtains of the tabernacle and the hangings of the courtyard alike. Exodus 27:19 ordered them of bronze with all the courtyard's utensils. Verse 31 counts them among the things made from the offered bronze.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Commentary on Chapter XXXVIII 1. The altar of burnt-offering - On this all their sacrifices were offered. Christ was himself the altar to his own sacrifice of atonement, and so he is to all our sacrifices of acknowledgment.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Scripture uses this expression because the term “Tabernacle” means the curtains of fine-twined linen, which are so called both when the command was given. And thou shalt make the Tabernacle of ten curtains (above,:1).
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. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְֽכָל־ | vekhol | and all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַיְתֵדֹ֞ת | haytedot | the tent pegs | H3489 → | 25 times |
| לַמִּשְׁכָּ֧ן | lamishkan | for the tabernacle | H4908 → | 139 times |
| וְלֶחָצֵ֛ר | velechatzer | and for the courtyard | H2691 → | 191 times |
| סָבִ֖יב | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃ ס | nechoshet | [were] bronze | H5178 → | 140 times |
וְֽכָל־and all
vekholH3605 →5413 times
הַיְתֵדֹ֞תthe tent pegs
haytedotH3489 →25 times
לַמִּשְׁכָּ֧ןfor the tabernacle
lamishkanH4908 →139 times
וְלֶחָצֵ֛רand for the courtyard
velechatzerH2691 →191 times
סָבִ֖יבall around
savivH5439 →336 times
נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃ ס[were] bronze
nechoshetH5178 →140 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Colossians 2:19He 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.
it leads to
- Ephesians 4:15–16
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
- John 15:4–6
Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
- Colossians 2:2
that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
- Romans 12:4–5
Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,
- 1 Timothy 2:4–6
who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
- Ephesians 4:15–16
Through
Ezra 9:8But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage,…
it leads to
- Psalms 13:3
Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
- Romans 11:5–6
In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
- Hosea 6:2
After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
- Psalms 13:3
Where this verse is studied
About Exodus
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.