Exodus 35:12

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;

World English Bible · Public Domain

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פָּרֹ֥כֶת

pôreketh

H6532

“curtain of”

Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct

Appears 25× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 26:31

Full BDB Definition

Origin: act part of the same as H6531

TWOT: 1818a

curtain, veil

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 →

9: words
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is פָּרֹ֥כֶת curtain H6532 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

פָּרֹ֥כֶת curtain H6532 occurs in 23 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
4 particles

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 9 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →

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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Exodus 35:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 25:10–22 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
Exodus 26:31–33 "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.
Exodus 26:7 "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent: eleven curtains shall you make them.
Exodus 36:35–36 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
Exodus 37:1–9 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 9 words vs World English Bible 13. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 35:12 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֶת הָאָרֹ֥ן וְאֶת בַּדָּ֖יו אֶת הַכַּפֹּ֑רֶת וְאֵ֖ת פָּרֹ֥כֶת הַמָּסָֽךְ

the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 35:12 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ κιβωτός ὁ μαρτύριον καί ὁ ἀναφορεύς αὐτός καί ὁ ἱλαστήριον αὐτός καί ὁ καταπέτασμα καί ὁ ἱστίον ὁ αὐλή καί ὁ στῦλος αὐτός καί ὁ λίθος ὁ σμάραγδος καί ὁ θυμίαμα καί ὁ ἔλαιον ὁ χρίσμα

and the curtains of the court, and its 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)

יָת אֲרוֹנָא וְיָת אֲרִיחוֹהִי יָת כַּפֻּרְתָּא וְיָת פָּרֻכְתָּא דִפְרָסָא:

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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)

יַת אֲרוֹנָא וְיַת אֲרִיחוֹי וְיַת כַּפּוּרְתָּא וְיַת פַּרְגוֹדָא דִפְרָסָא

The ark, with its staves, and the mercy seat, and the veil for the covering;

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 35:12 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 →

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Which hanged before the Mercy seat that it could not be seen.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 12. The ark] See Ex 25:10-17.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

12. the veil of the screen] i.e. the veil which acts as a screen (cf. Exo_40:3; Exo_40:21), viz. in front of the Holy of holies. So Exo_39:34; Exo_40:21. Elsewhere ‘the veil’ alone.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

The ark and the staves thereof,.... To carry it with, which were all made of shittim wood:

with the mercy seat; made of pure gold; these were set in the most holy place:

and the vail of the covering; which divided between the holy and the holy of holies; of these see Exo 25:10.

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The covering - This is not the same as the covering of Exo 35:11, which denotes the covering of the tent (see Exo 26:14): the word is used here for the entrance curtains (see Exo 26:36; Exo 27:16).

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

i.e. Which was hanged before the ark and mercy-seat.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

On the ark and the staves thereof, see Exo_25:10-15 on the mercy-seat, ib. 17-22; on the vail of the covering, see Exo_26:31.

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ואת פרכת המסך means THE CURTAIN OF (that serves for) PARTITIONING — Everything that screens an object, whether it hangs above or in front of it is called מָסָךְ or סְכַךְ. Of similar meaning are: (Job 1:10) “[Hast Thou not] put a partition in front of him?” (שכת = סכת); (Hosea 2:8) “Behold I will partition off (סך = שך) thy way [with thorns]”.

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.

Lesson kit

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pôreketh (“curtain”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word pôreketh carries the sense “curtain.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Exodus 26:31, which shares the word «curtain», read alongside this verse?
The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.