Exodus 26:20

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

For the second side of the tent, on the north side, twenty boards,

World English Bible · Public Domain

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וּלְצֶ֧לַע

tsêlâʻ

H6763

“and · to/for · rib of”

Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct

Appears 41× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 2:21

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6760

TWOT: 1924a

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)

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 →

7: words
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּלְצֶ֧לַע rib H6763 occurs in 32 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
2 adjectives

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 10 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 10 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.

Hebrew Exodus 26:20 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּלְצֶ֧לַע הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ן הַשֵּׁנִ֖ית לִפְאַ֣ת צָפ֑וֹן עֶשְׂרִ֖ים קָֽרֶשׁ

For the second side of the tent, on the north side, twenty boards,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 26:20 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ κλίτος ὁ δεύτερος ὁ πρός νότος εἴκοσι στῦλος

And for the next side, toward the south, twenty posts,

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 →

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְלִסְטַר מַשְׁכְּנָא תִּנְיֵתָא לְרוּחַ צִפּוּנָא עֶסְרִין דַפִּין:

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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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְלִסְטָר מַשְׁכְּנָא תִנְיָנָא לְרוּחַ צִיפוּנָא עֶשְרִין לוּחִין

And for the second side of the tabernacle towards the north wind twenty boards,

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.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 26:20 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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John Gill's Exposition

And their forty sockets of silver,.... answerable to the twenty boards, for their two tenons to be placed in as in mortises: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board; and so under all the boards on the north side as on the south.

And their forty sockets of silver,.... answerable to the twenty boards, for their two tenons to be placed in as in mortises: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board; and so under all the boards on the north side as on the south.

Exodus 26:22

exo 26:22

exo 26:22

exo 26:22And for the sides of the tabernacle,.... Or the ends of it, the east and west, and the account begins with the west:

westward thou shalt make six boards; so that the breadth of the tabernacle was but nine cubits, or four yards and a half, according to a common cubit; but two boards more placed at the two corners of the sides, next observed, added to the breadth of it.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

The second side the north side. The north side, or left hand, was always regarded as less honourable than the south side or right hand, (see Gen_48:13-20) probably because in the northern hemisphere the sun illumines the south side. It showed the superior dignity of the south side that the golden candlestick was set against it. (Exo_40:24)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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 7 words (7 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?
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?
Reading how John Gill's Exposition and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.