He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
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He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them. He made it hollow, of planks.
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He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.
Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, wherewith to bear it; he made it hollow with planks.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made it hollow with planks.
The which barres he put into the rings on the sides of the altar to beare it withall, and made it hollow within the boardes.
And he drew them through the rings that stood out in the sides of the altar. And the altar itself was not solid, but hollow, of boards, and empty within.
and he bringeth in the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with them; hollow `with' boards he made it.
and he brings in the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them; he made it hollow [with] boards.
He put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it. He made the altar hollow, out of planks.
And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them. He made it hollow, of planks.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. Hollow with boards did he make it.
He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
And he put the staffs into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with; he made the altar hollow with boards.
He put the poles through the rings on either side of the altar so it could be carried. He made the altar hollow, using boards.
He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, wherewith to bear it; he made it hollow with planks.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is נְב֥וּב to hollow out H5014 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
נְב֥וּב to hollow out H5014 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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 14 Hebrew tokens and 19 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.
Topical passages linked to Exodus 38:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיָּבֵ֨א אֶת הַבַּדִּ֜ים בַּטַּבָּעֹ֗ת עַ֚ל צַלְעֹ֣ת הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ לָשֵׂ֥את אֹת֖וֹ בָּהֶ֑ם נְב֥וּב לֻחֹ֖ת עָשָׂ֥ה אֹתֽוֹ
He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
World English Bible · Public Domain
χερουβ εἷς ἐπί ὁ ἄκρος ὁ ἱλαστήριον ὁ εἷς καί χερουβ εἷς ἐπί ὁ ἄκρος ὁ δεύτερος ὁ ἱλαστήριον
one cherub on the one end of the propitiatory, and another cherub on the other end of the propitiatory,
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.
וְאָעֵיל יָת אֲרִיחַיָא בְּעִזְקָתָא עַל סִטְרֵי מַדְבְּחָא לְמִטַל יָתֵהּ בְּהוֹן חֲלִיל לוּחִין עֲבַד יָתֵהּ:
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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.
וְהַנְעַל יַת אֲרִיחַיָא בְּעִזְקָתָא עַל סְטַר מַדְבְּחָא לְמִטַּל יָתֵיהּ בְּהוֹן חֲלִיל לוּחִין מְלֵי עַפְרָא עֲבַד יָתֵיהּ
And he put the staves into the rings, upon the sides of the altar, to carry it by them: hollow with boards, and filled with earth made he it.
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 nâbab (“to hollow out”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 38:7 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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Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.