He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
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He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it. And he overlaid it bronze.
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He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
He made a horn at each of its four corners, so that the horns and altar were of one piece, and he overlaid the altar with bronze.
He made a horn at each of its four corners, so that the horns and altar were of one piece, and he overlaid the altar with bronze.
And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it: and he overlaid it with brass.
And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it: and he overlaid it with brass.
And hee made vnto it hornes in the foure corners thereof: the hornes thereof were of the same, and he ouerlayd it with brasse.
The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it with plates of brass.
and he maketh its horns on its four corners; its horns have been of the same; and he overlayeth it with brass;
and he makes its horns on its four corners; its horns have been of the same; and he overlays it with bronze;
He made extensions of its four corners shaped like ox horns. The horns were made of one piece with the altar, and he covered it with bronze.
And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it. And he overlaid it bronze.
And he made its horns on the four corners thereof; its horns were of itself; and he overlaid it with copper.
He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
And he made its horns on the four corners of it; its horns were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
He made horns for each of its corners, all one piece with the altar, and covered the whole altar with bronze.
And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass;
And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it; and he overlaid it with brass.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
פִּנֹּתָ֔יו corner H6438 occurs in 29 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 9 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.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 8 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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Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 9 words vs World English Bible 22. 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.
וַיַּ֣עַשׂ קַרְנֹתָ֗יו עַ֚ל אַרְבַּ֣ע פִּנֹּתָ֔יו מִמֶּ֖נּוּ הָי֣וּ קַרְנֹתָ֑יו וַיְצַ֥ף אֹת֖וֹ נְחֹֽשֶׁת
He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί καταχρυσόω αὐτός χρυσίον καθαρός ἔσωθεν καί ἔξωθεν
and overlaid it with pure gold within and without;
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 קַרְנוֹהִי עַל אַרְבַּע זִוְיָתֵהּ מִנֵהּ הֲווֹ קַרְנוֹהִי וַחֲפָא יָתֵהּ נְחָשָׁא:
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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 קַרְנוֹי עַל אַרְבַּע זִוְיָיתֵיהּ מִנֵיהּ הֲוָואָה קַרְנוֹי זְקִיפִין לְעֵיל וַחֲפָא יָתֵיהּ נְחָשָׁא
And he made horns upon its four corners; of the same were its horns stretching upward; and he covered it with 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.
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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pinnâh (“corner”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 38:2 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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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.