וַיְחַבֵּר֙ אֶת חֲמֵ֣שׁ הַיְרִיעֹ֔ת אַחַ֖ת אֶל אֶחָ֑ת וְחָמֵ֤שׁ יְרִיעֹת֙ חִבַּ֔ר אַחַ֖ת אֶל אֶחָֽת
He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 36:10
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 36:10 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
He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
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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
He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And five of the curtains were joined each to another, and five of the curtains were joined each to another.
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
He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And he joined five of the curtains together, and the other five he joined as well.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And he joined five of the curtains together, and the other five he joined as well.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he coupled five curtains one to another: and `the other' five curtains he coupled one to another.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he coupled five curtains one to another: and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And he coupled fiue curtaines together, and other fiue coupled he together.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he joined five curtains, one to another, and the other five he coupled one to another.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he joineth the five curtains one unto another, and the `other' five curtains he hath joined one unto another;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he joins the five curtains to one another, and the [other] five curtains he has joined to one another;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Bezalel joined five curtains to each other, and the other five curtains he also joined to each other.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And five of the curtains were joined each to another, and five of the curtains were joined each to another.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he coupled five of the curtains one to another, and [the other] five curtains coupled he one to another.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he coupled the five curtains one to another: and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
They joined together five of the curtains as one set, and the other five as a second set.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined together.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he coupled five curtains one to another; and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
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וַיְחַבֵּר֙
châbar
H2266
“and · to bind together”
Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 29× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 14:3
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Verb
- Stem
- Piel
- Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- Person
- 3rd Person
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
to unite, join, bind together, be joined, be coupled, be in league, heap up, have fellowship with, be compact, be a charmer
- (Qal)
- to unite, be joined
- to tie magic charms, charm
- (Piel)
- to unite with, make an ally of
- to unite, join, ally
- (Pual)
- to be allied with, be united
- to be joined together
- (Hiphil) to join together, pile up (words)
- (Hithpael) to join oneself to, make an alliance, league together
- וַיְחַבֵּר֙ châbar H2266 “and · to bind together” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- חֲמֵ֣שׁ châmêsh H2568 “five” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- הַיְרִיעֹ֔ת yᵉrîyʻâh H3407 “the · curtains” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- אַחַ֖ת ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- אֶחָ֑ת ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְחָמֵ֤שׁ châmêsh H2568 “and · five” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- יְרִיעֹת֙ yᵉrîyʻâh H3407 “curtains” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- חִבַּ֔ר châbar H2266 “to bind together” Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אַחַ֖ת ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- אֶחָֽת ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, 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 →
- 13
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וַיְחַבֵּר֙ to bind together H2266 occurs in 25 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 2 nouns
- 6 adjectives
- 2 prepositions
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיְחַבֵּר֙ Piel · Sequential Imperfect
- חִבַּ֔ר Piel · Perfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 34 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer 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
13Topical passages linked to Exodus 36:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 26:3 Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
- Psalms 122:3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;
- Psalms 133:1 See how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to live together in unity!
- Zephaniah 3:9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
- Acts 2:1 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
- 1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- 1 Corinthians 12:20 But now they are many members, but one body.
- 1 Corinthians 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
- Ephesians 1:23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
- Ephesians 2:21–22 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
- Ephesians 4:2–6 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
- Philippians 2:2 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
- Philippians 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
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 longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 34 words vs World English Bible 17. 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.
καί τέμνω ὁ πέταλον ὁ χρυσίον θρίξ ὥστε συνὑφαίνω σύν ὁ ὑάκινθος καί ὁ πορφύρα καί σύν ὁ κόκκινος ὁ διανήθω καί σύν ὁ βύσσος ὁ κλώθω ἔργον ὑφαντός
And the plates were divided, the threads of gold, so as to interweave with the blue and purple, and with the spun scarlet, and the fine linen twined, they made it a woven work;
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְלָפֵף יָת חָמֵשׁ יְרִיעָן חֲדָא עִם חֲדָא וְחָמֵשׁ יְרִיעָן לָפֵף חֲדָא עִם חֲדָא:
(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)
וְלָפֵיף יַת חָמֵשׁ יְרִיעַן חֲדָא עִם חֲדָא וְחָמֵשׁ יְרִיעַן לָפֵיף חֲדָא עִם חֲדָא
And he conjoined five curtains one with another, and (the other) five curtains conjoined he one with another.
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 13 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châbar (“to bind together”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “to bind together” (châbar) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Genesis 14:3 shares the word «to bind together» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “one” occurs 4× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs longer here. What questions does that raise?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «וַיְחַבֵּר֙» is Piel Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- “one” occurs 4× in this single verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 13 words in this verse.