Exodus 35:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 35:15 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.
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and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tent;
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tent;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the altar of incense and its poles and the oil of anointing and the incense of fragrance and the curtain of the entrance for the entrance of the Dwelling,

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tent;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Likewise the Altar of perfume and his barres, and the anoynting oyle, and the sweete incense, and the vaile of the doore at the entring in of the Tabernacle,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    The altar of incense, and the bars, and the oil of unction and the incense of spices: the hanging at the door of the tabernacle:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And the altar of perfume, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the spice perfume, and the covering of the opening at the opening of the tabernacle,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the altar of incense, and its poles, and the anointing oil, and the spice-incense, and the covering of the opening at the opening of the Dwelling Place,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    the incense altar with its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the tabernacle entrance;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the altar of incense and its poles and the oil of anointing and the incense of fragrance and the curtain of the entrance for the entrance of the Dwelling,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and the altar of incense, and its staves; and the anointing-oil, and the incense of fragrant drugs; and the entrance-curtain at the entrance of the tabernacle;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the incense-altar, and its staffs, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle,
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and aromatic incense; the screen for the Tabernacle entrance and all its accessories;
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;

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הַסַּמִּ֑ים
çam
H5561
“the · spices”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to smell sweet

TWOT: 1516a

spice - a spice used in incense
  1. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  2. מִזְבַּ֤ח mizbêach H4196 “altar of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  3. הַקְּטֹ֨רֶת֙ qᵉṭôreth H7004 “the · incense” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  4. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  5. בַּדָּ֔יו bad H905 “poles · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. וְאֵת֙ ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  7. שֶׁ֣מֶן shemen H8081 “fat of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  8. הַמִּשְׁחָ֔ה mishchâh H4888 “the · anointing oil” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  9. וְאֵ֖ת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  10. קְטֹ֣רֶת qᵉṭôreth H7004 “incense of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  11. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  12. מָסַ֥ךְ mâçâk H4539 “covering of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  13. הַפֶּ֖תַח pethach H6607 “the · doorway” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  14. לְפֶ֥תַח pethach H6607 “to/for · doorway of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  15. הַמִּשְׁכָּֽן mishkân H4908 “the · dwelling place” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, 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 →

16
words
10
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַסַּמִּ֑ים spice H5561 — appearing just 16 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַסַּמִּ֑ים spice H5561 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 11 nouns
  • 5 particles

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • הַקְּטֹ֨רֶת֙ incense H7004 ×2
  • הַפֶּ֖תַח doorway H6607 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 7 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

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 35:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 30:1–10 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.
  • Exodus 26:36–37 "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
  • Exodus 30:22–38 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  • Exodus 36:37–38 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
  • Exodus 37:25–28 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.
  • Psalms 141:2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; The lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

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) 7 words vs World English Bible 25. 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 35:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֶת מִזְבַּ֤ח הַקְּטֹ֨רֶת֙ וְאֶת בַּדָּ֔יו וְאֵת֙ שֶׁ֣מֶן הַמִּשְׁחָ֔ה וְאֵ֖ת קְטֹ֣רֶת הַסַּמִּ֑ים וְאֶת מָסַ֥ךְ הַפֶּ֖תַח לְפֶ֥תַח הַמִּשְׁכָּֽן

and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tent;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 35:15 Septuagint · lemma form
and the table and all its furniture,

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)

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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְיָת מַדְבְּחָא דִקְטוֹרֶת בּוּסְמַיָא וְיָת אֲרִיחוֹהִי וְיָת מִשְׁחָא דִרְבוּתָא וְיָת קְטֹרֶת בּוּסְמַיָא וְיָת פְּרָסָא דְתַרְעָא לִתְרַע מַשְׁכְּנָא:

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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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְיַת מַדְבְּחָא דִקְטוֹרֶת בּוּסְמַיָא וְיַת אֲרִיחוֹי וְיַת מִישְׁחָא דִרְבוּתָא וְיַת קְטוֹרֶת בּוּסְמַיָא וְיַת פָּרָסָא דְתַרְעָא לִתְרַע מַשְׁכַּן זִימְנָא

    and the altar of sweet incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the curtain for the door of the tabernacle of ordinance;

    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 35:15 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 →

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 15. The incense altar] The golden altar, see Ex 30:1-10.

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

15. the altar of incense] this here appears in the place in which we should expect it, among the other vessels of the Holy place.

door (twice)] entrance.

the altar of burnt offering] See on Exo_38:1.

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

And the incense altar, and his staves,.... Which were overlaid with gold; hence this altar was called the golden altar, of which see Exo 30:1.

and the anointing oil and sweet incense; each of which were made of various spices, see Exo 30:23.

and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle; at the east end of it, there being there, as Jarchi observes, neither boards nor curtains; see Exo 27:16.

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 incense altar. See Exo_30:1-10. His staves. See Exo_30:5. The anointing oil is described in the same chapter, vers. 23-25; the sweet incense in vers. 34, 35; the hangings for the door in Exo_26:36.

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)

מסך הפתח THE SCREEN FOR THE ENTRANCE — the curtain that was in front of the east side of the Tabernacle, for there were neither boards nor curtains there.

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

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 16 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is çam (“spice”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “spice” (çam) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Exodus 25:6 shares the word «spice» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “incense” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
  5. 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?
  6. Reading how Adam Clarke's Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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