He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim thereon.
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He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim thereon.
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
And he made the curtain of violet, and purple, and crimson and fine linen, and he brought up on it cherubim.
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He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim thereon.
He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
He made also the vaile of blew silke and purple, and crimosin, and fine linen, and wrought Cherubims thereon.
He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.
And he maketh the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and causeth cherubs to go up on it.
And he makes the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and causes cherubim to go up on it.
He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson wool and fine linen, and he fashioned cherubs on it.
And he made the curtain of violet, and purple, and crimson and fine linen, and he brought up on it cherubim.
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and byssus, and made cherubim upon it.
He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim upon it.
He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson embroidery on fine linen, with images of cherubim on it.
And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְכַרְמִ֣יל crimson H3758 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְכַרְמִ֣יל crimson H3758 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 3:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיַּ֨עַשׂ֙ אֶת הַפָּרֹ֔כֶת תְּכֵ֥לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֖ן וְכַרְמִ֣יל וּב֑וּץ וַיַּ֥עַל עָלָ֖יו כְּרוּבִֽים
He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim thereon.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ποιέω ὁ καταπέτασμα ἐκ ὑάκινθος καί πορφύρα καί κόκκινος καί βύσσος καί ὑφαίνω ἐν αὐτός χερουβιν
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and wove cherubs in it.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is karmîyl (“crimson”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 3:14 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.