For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
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For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
And the cherubim were spreading out wings over the place of the Box. And the cherubim covered over the Box and over its poles from above.
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For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.
For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above:
For ye Cherubims stretched out their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the barres thereof aboue.
So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place, in which the ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its staves.
and the cherubs are spreading out wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs cover over the ark, and over its staves, from above;
and the cherubim are spreading out wings over the place of the Ark, and the cherubim cover over the Ark, and over its poles, from above;
For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and they covered the ark and the poles by which it was carried.
And the cherubim were spreading out wings over the place of the Box. And the cherubim covered over the Box and over its poles from above.
and the cherubim stretched forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above.
For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark, and the staffs of it above.
The cherubim were spreading their wings over the place where the Ark was, so that the cherubim made a covering above the Ark and its poles.
For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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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 14 Hebrew tokens and 26 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.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיִּהְי֤וּ הַכְּרוּבִים֙ פֹּרְשִׂ֣ים כְּנָפַ֔יִם עַל מְק֖וֹם הָאָר֑וֹן וַיְכַסּ֧וּ הַכְּרוּבִ֛ים עַל הָאָר֥וֹן וְעַל בַּדָּ֖יו מִלְמָֽעְלָה
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἰμί ὁ χερουβιν διαπετάζω ὁ πτέρυξ αὐτός ἐπί ὁ τόπος ὁ κιβωτός καί συνκαλύπτω ὁ χερουβιν ἐπί ὁ κιβωτός καί ἐπί ὁ ἀναφορεύς αὐτός ἐπάνωθεν
And the cherubs stretched out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark, and its staves above.
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 14 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pâras (“to spread out”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 5:8 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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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.
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.