They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
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They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
And they made two ornamental settings of gold and two rings of gold and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastpiece.
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They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
They also made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and fastened the two rings to the two corners of the breastpiece.
They also made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and fastened the two rings to the two corners of the breastpiece.
And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
They made also two bosses of golde, and two golde rings, and put the two rings in the two corners of the brest plate.
And two hooks, and as many rings of gold. And they set the rings on either side of the rational,
and they make two embroidered things of gold, and two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate,
and they make two filigrees of gold, and two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate,
They made two settings of gold and two gold rings, and they attached the two rings to the two corners of the breastpiece.
And they made two ornamental settings of gold and two rings of gold and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastpiece.
And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings in the two ends of the breast-plate.
They made two gold settings and two gold rings and fastened the rings to the two top corners of the breastpiece.
And they made two gold frames and two gold rings, the rings being fixed to the ends of the priest's bag;
And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מִשְׁבְּצֹ֣ת filigree work H4865 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִשְׁבְּצֹ֣ת filigree work H4865 occurs in 9 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 15 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 17 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 39:16 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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Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 15 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.
וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֗וּ שְׁתֵּי֙ מִשְׁבְּצֹ֣ת זָהָ֔ב וּשְׁתֵּ֖י טַבְּעֹ֣ת זָהָ֑ב וַֽיִּתְּנ֗וּ אֶת שְׁתֵּי֙ הַטַּבָּעֹ֔ת עַל שְׁנֵ֖י קְצ֥וֹת הַחֹֽשֶׁן
They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὁ λυχνία ὁ καθαρός καί ὁ λύχνος αὐτός λύχνος ὁ καῦσις καί ὁ ἔλαιον ὁ φῶς
And they made the anointing oil, and the incense of composition, and the pure candlestick,
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.
וַעֲבָדוּ תַּרְתֵּין מְרַמְצָן דִדְהַב וְתַרְתֵּין עִזְקָן דִדְהָב וִיהָבוּ יָת תַּרְתֵּין עִזְקָתָא עַל תְּרֵין סִטְרֵי חוּשְׁנָא:
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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.
וְעָבָדוּ תַּרְתֵּין מְרַמְצִין דִּדְהַב וְתַרְתֵּין עִזְקַן דִּדְהַב וִיהָבוּ יַת תַּרְתֵּין עִזְקָתָא עַל תְּרֵין צִטְרֵי חוּשְׁנָא
And they made two sockets of gold, and two golden rings, and set the two rings on the two sides of the breastplate.
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 15 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mishbᵉtsâh (“filigree work”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 39:16 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 Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.