וְהֵֽבֵאתָ֤ אֶת הַבַּדִּים֙ בַּטַּבָּעֹ֔ת עַ֖ל צַלְעֹ֣ת הָאָרֹ֑ן לָשֵׂ֥את אֶת הָאָרֹ֖ן בָּהֶֽם
You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 25:14
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 25:14 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
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Compare translations 3
The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the box, to carry the box with them.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And thou shalt put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, wherewith to bear the ark.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And thou shalt put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark withal.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then thou shalt put the barres in the rings by the sides of the Arke, to beare the Arke with them.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and hast brought the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark by them,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and have brought the poles into the rings on the sides of the Ark, to carry the Ark by them;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
You must put the poles into the rings on the ark's sides, in order to carry the ark.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the box, to carry the box with them.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And put the staves into the rings upon the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt put the staffs into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Place the poles into the rings on the sides of the Ark, so it can be carried.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And thou shalt put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, wherewith to bear the ark.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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צַלְעֹ֣ת
tsêlâʻ
H6763
“ribs of”
Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
- Appears 41× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 2:21
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Both
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
side, rib, beam
- rib (of man)
- rib (of hill, ridge, etc)
- side-chambers or cells (of temple structure)
- rib, plank, board (of cedar or fir)
- leaves (of door)
- side (of ark)
- וְהֵֽבֵאתָ֤ bôwʼ H935 “and · to enter” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַבַּדִּים֙ bad H905 “the · poles” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- בַּטַּבָּעֹ֔ת ṭabbaʻath H2885 “in/at the · signet rings” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- עַ֖ל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- צַלְעֹ֣ת tsêlâʻ H6763 “ribs of” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
- הָאָרֹ֑ן ʼârôwn H727 “the · ark” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- לָשֵׂ֥את nâsâʼ H5375 “to lift” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הָאָרֹ֖ן ʼârôwn H727 “the · ark” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
צַלְעֹ֣ת rib H6763 occurs in 32 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 2 prepositions
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וְהֵֽבֵאתָ֤ Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
- לָשֵׂ֥את Qal · Infinitive Construct
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- הָאָרֹ֑ן ark H727 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 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.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί εἰςἄγω ὁ ἀναφορεύς εἰς ὁ δακτύλιος ὁ ἐν ὁ κλίτος ὁ κιβωτός αἴρω ὁ κιβωτός ἐν αὐτός
And you shall put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark with them.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, John Gill's Exposition discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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 →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְתָעֵל יָת אֲרִיחֲיָא בְּעִזְקָתָא עַל סִטְרֵי אֲרוֹנָא לְמִטַל יָת אֲרוֹנָא בְּהוֹן:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וּתְהַנְעַל יַת אֲרִיחַיָא בְּעִזְקָתָא עַל צִיטְרֵיהּ אֲרוֹנָא לְמֵיטוֹל יַת אֲרוֹנָא בְּהוֹן
and thou shalt introduce the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, that the ark may be carried upon them.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tsêlâʻ (“rib”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “rib” (tsêlâʻ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Genesis 2:21 shares the word «rib» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “ark” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- The verb «וְהֵֽבֵאתָ֤» is Hiphil Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- “ark” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 25:14 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
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.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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).
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.