Exodus 35:32

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 35:32 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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Exodus 35:32 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/exodus/35/32.

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and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and to design designs, to work in gold and in silver and in bronze

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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    To finde out curious workes, to worke in golde, and in siluer, and in brasse,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    To devise and to work in gold and silver and brass,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    even to devise devices to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    even to devise inventions to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    to make artistic designs and to work in gold, silver, and bronze;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and to design designs, to work in gold and in silver and in bronze
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and to devise artistic things: to work in gold, and in silver, and in copper,
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He can produce designs in gold, silver, and bronze,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

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6
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6
distinct lemmas
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Shared distinctive vocabulary

מַֽחַשָׁבֹ֑ת thought H4284 occurs in 52 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 4 nouns

Verb forms

  • וְלַחְשֹׁ֖ב Qal · Infinitive Construct
  • לַעֲשֹׂ֛ת Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

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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.

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 longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 19 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 35:32 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְלַחְשֹׁ֖ב מַֽחַשָׁבֹ֑ת לַעֲשֹׂ֛ת בַּזָּהָ֥ב וּבַכֶּ֖סֶף וּבַנְּחֹֽשֶׁת

and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 35:32 Septuagint · lemma form

ἀρχιτεκτονέω κατά πᾶς ὁ ἔργον ὁ ἀρχιτεκτονία ποιέω ὁ χρυσίον καί ὁ ἀργύριον καί ὁ χαλκός

to labor skillfully in all works of cunning workmanship, to form the gold and the silver and the brass,

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)
    וּלְאַלָפָא אוּמַנְוָן לְמֶעְבַּד בְּדַהֲבָא וּבְכַסְפָא וּבִנְחָשָׁא:

    (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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּלְאַלָפָא אוּמַנְוָון לְמֶעֱבַד בְּדַהֲבָא וּבְכַסְפָּא וּבִנְחָשָׁא

    and to instruct artificers to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

    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 35:32 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 35:32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

Ver. 32. And to devise curious works.] "This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working." {Isa 28:29} Pliny {a} makes mention of some famous painters, whose rare pieces were Oppidorum opibus venditae: sold for so many towns’ wealth. A certain craftsman set a watch clock upon a ring that Charles V wore upon his finger. {b} King Ferdinand sent to Solyman the Turk, for a present, a wonderful globe of silver of most rare and curious device; daily expressing the hourly passing of the time, the motions of the planets, the change and full of the moon; lively expressing the wonderful conversions of the celestial frame. {c} To which I may well add that admirable invention of printing, a special blessing of God to mankind.

{a} Lib. xxiii.

{b} Sphinx Philos., p, 90.

{c} Turk. Hist., fol. 713.

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.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

32. cunning works] works of skill (Exo_31:4).

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.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Curious works, cunning work - Works of skill. Compare Exo 30:4.

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

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

Discussion questions

  1. What does “thought” (machăshâbâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Genesis 6:5, which shares the word «thought», read alongside this verse?
  3. The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  4. 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?
  5. «וְלַחְשֹׁ֖ב» is a Qal Infinitive Construct verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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