Exodus 36:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent. He made them eleven curtains.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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עַשְׁתֵּֽי

ʻashtêy

H6249

“one”

Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Construct

Appears 19× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 26:7

Full BDB Definition

Origin: apparently masc. pl. construction of H6247 in the sense of an afterthought (used only in connection with H6240 in lieu of H259 ) eleven or (ordinal) eleventh

TWOT: 1717c

one, eleven, eleventh

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 →

11: words
9: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is עַשְׁתֵּֽי one H6249 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עַשְׁתֵּֽי one H6249 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
5 nouns
2 adjectives
1 preposition
1 particle

Verb forms

וַיַּ֨עַשׂ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
עָשָׂ֥ה Qal · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַיַּ֨עַשׂ֙ to do H6213 ×2
יְרִיעֹ֣ת curtain H3407 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 24 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.

In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Exodus 36:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 26:7–13 "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent: eleven curtains shall you make them.

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) 24 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.

Hebrew Exodus 36:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּ֨עַשׂ֙ יְרִיעֹ֣ת עִזִּ֔ים לְאֹ֖הֶל עַל הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן עַשְׁתֵּֽי עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה יְרִיעֹ֖ת עָשָׂ֥ה אֹתָֽם

He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent. He made them eleven curtains.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 36:14 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐπιτίθημι αὐτός ἐπί ὁ ὦμος ὁ ἐπωμίς λίθος μνημόσυνον ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ καθά συντάσσω κύριος ὁ μωυσῆς

and he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as stones of memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord appointed Moses.

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)

וַעֲבַד יְרִיעָן דִמְעַזֵי לִפְרָסָא עַל מַשְׁכְּנָא חַד עֲשַׂר יְרִיעָן עֲבַד יָתְהֶן:

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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)

וַעֲבַד יְרִיעַן דְּמֵעַזֵּי לִפְרָסָא עַל מַשְׁכְּנָא חַד סְרֵי יְרִיעַן עֲבַד יַתְהוֹן

And he made curtains of goats' hair to spread upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.

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 36:14 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 →

Matthew Henry's Commentary

Here, 1. The shelter and special protection that the church is under are signified by the curtains of hair-cloth, which were spread over the tabernacle, and the covering of rams' skins and badgers' skins over them, Exo 36:14-19. God has provided for his people a shadow from the heat, and a covert from storm and rain, Isa 4:6. They are armed against all weathers; the sun and the moon shall not smite them: and they are protected from the storms of divine wrath, that hail which will sweep away the refuge of lies, Isa 28:17. Those that dwell in God's house shall find, be the tempest ever so violent, or the dropping ever so continual, it does not rain in. 2. The strength and stability of the church, though it is but a tabernacle, are signified by the boards and bars with which the curtains were borne up, Exo 36:20-34. The boards were coupled together and joined by the bars which shot through them; for the union of the church, and the hearty agreement of those that are its stays and supporters, contribute abundantly to its strength and establishment.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible (1708–1710) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(14-18) The construction of the outer covering of goats’ hair follows, and is expressed in terms nearly identical with those used in Exo_26:7-11. Exo_36:14 is better rendered than that to which it corresponds in the previous passage (Exo_36:7). There are two omissions of short clauses for the sake of brevity.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Bezalel made curtains ... the second set

For Exo 36:14-17 see how you translated many of these words in Exodus 26:7-9 and Exodus 26:10.

made eleven

"made 11" (See: Numbers)

thirty cubits

"30 cubits" (See: Numbers and Biblical Distance)

fifty loops

"50 loops" (See: Numbers)

translationWords

goat

tent

tabernacle

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, pavilion.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

i. e. For the outward covering of the tabernacle. See Exo 35:11

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

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 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻashtêy (“one”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʻashtêy carries the sense “one.” How does it shape the verse?
Exodus 26:7 shares the word «one» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“to do” occurs 2× 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?
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?
The verb «וַיַּ֨עַשׂ֙» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Matthew Henry's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
“to do” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.