He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
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He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
And he made for the altar a brazen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
And he made a grate for the altar, a work of a network of bronze under its ledge, from below to its middle.
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He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.
He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.
And he made for the altar a brazen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.
And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.
Moreouer he made a brasen grate wrought like a net to the Altar, vnder the compasse of it beneath in the middes of it,
And he made the grate thereof of brass, in manner of a net, and under it in the midst of the altar a hearth,
And he maketh for the altar a brazen grate of net-work, under its border beneath, unto its midst;
And he makes a bronze grate of network for the altar, under its rim beneath, to its midst;
He made a grate for the altar, a network of bronze to be placed under the ledge, halfway down to the bottom.
And he made a grate for the altar, a work of a network of bronze under its ledge, from below to its middle.
And he made for the altar a grating of network of copper under its ledge from beneath, to the very middle of it.
He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
And he made for the altar a brazen grate of net-work under the compass of it beneath to the midst of it.
He made a bronze mesh grate for the altar and placed it under the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh came halfway down the altar.
And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;
And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is כַּרְכֻּבּ֛וֹ rim H3749 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
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כַּרְכֻּבּ֛וֹ rim H3749 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 14 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.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 14 words vs World English Bible 21. 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.
וַיַּ֤עַשׂ לַמִּזְבֵּ֨חַ֙ מִכְבָּ֔ר מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה רֶ֣שֶׁת נְחֹ֑שֶׁת תַּ֧חַת כַּרְכֻּבּ֛וֹ מִלְּמַ֖טָּה עַד חֶצְיֽוֹ
He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
World English Bible · Public Domain
εὐρύς ὁ διωστήρ ὥστε αἴρω αὐτός ἐν αὐτός
wide enough for the staves, so that men should bear the ark with them.
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 לְּמַדְבְּחָא סְרָדָא עוֹבַד מְצַדְתָּא דִנְחָשָׁא תְּחוֹת סוֹבָבֵהּ מִלְרַע עַד פַּלְגֵהּ:
(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.
וַעֲבַד לְמַדְבְּחָא קַנְקַל עוֹבַד מְצַרְתָּא דִנְחָשָׁא תְּחוֹת סוֹבְבֵיהּ מִלְרַע עַד פַּלְגֵיהּ מְטוֹל לְקַבָּלָא גוּמְרַיָא וְגַרְמַיָא דְנָפְלִין מִן מַדְבְּחָא
And he made the grate of the altar, of brasen network under the border beneath, reaching to the middle of it, to receive the cinders and bones that fell from the altar.
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 (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is karkôb (“rim”). 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 38:4 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.