He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tent was a unit.
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He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tent was a unit.
And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
And he made 50 clasps of gold and joined the curtains one to one with the clasps, and the Dwelling was one.
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He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tent was a unit.
He also made fifty gold clasps to join the curtains together, so that the tabernacle was a unit.
He also made fifty gold clasps to join the curtains together, so that the tabernacle was a unit.
And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was one.
And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was one.
After, he made fiftie taches of golde, and coupled the curtaines one to another with the taches: so was it one Tabernacle.
Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the loops of the curtains, and they might be made one tabernacle.
And he maketh fifty hooks of gold, and joineth the curtains one unto another by the hooks, and the tabernacle is one.
And he makes fifty hooks of gold, and joins the curtains to one another by the hooks, and the Dwelling Place is one.
He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together with them so that the tabernacle became united.
And he made 50 clasps of gold and joined the curtains one to one with the clasps, and the Dwelling was one.
And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one.
He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
And he made fifty buttons of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the buttons. So it became one tabernacle.
They also made fifty gold clips and joined the curtains together with the clips, so that the Tabernacle was a single structure.
And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made.
And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps; so the tabernacle was one.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is קַרְסֵ֣י hook H7165 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
קַרְסֵ֣י hook H7165 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 30 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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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.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 22 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.
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וַיַּ֕עַשׂ חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים קַרְסֵ֣י זָהָ֑ב וַיְחַבֵּ֨ר אֶת הַיְרִעֹ֜ת אַחַ֤ת אֶל אַחַת֙ בַּקְּרָסִ֔ים וַֽיְהִ֥י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן אֶחָֽד
He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tent was a unit.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ποιέω ἀμφότεροι ὁ λίθος ὁ σμάραγδος συνπορπάω καί περισιαλόω χρυσίον γλύφω καί ἐκκολάπτω ἐκκόλαμμα σφραγίς ἐκ ὁ ὄνομα ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ
and they made the two emerald stones clasped together and set in gold, graven and cut after the cutting of a seal with the names of the children of Israel;
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 →
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.
וַעֲבַד חַמְשִׁין פּוּרְפִין דִדְהַב וְלָפֵף יָת יְרִיעֲתָא חֲדָא עִם חֲדָא בְּפוּרְפַיָא וַהֲוָה מַשְׁכְּנָא חָד:
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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.
וְעָבַד חַמְשִׁין פּוּרְפִין דִּדְהַב וְלָפֵיף יַת יְרִיעֲתָא חֲדָא עִם חֲדָא בְּפוּרְפַּיָא וַהֲוָה מַשְׁכְּנָא חָד
And he made fifty taches of gold, and conjoined one curtain with another with the taches, and there was one tabernacle.
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.
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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 14 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qereç (“hook”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 36:13 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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Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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.