The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
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The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
The opening of the robe in the middle of it like an opening of a garment. The edge for its opening was all around so that it could not tear.
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The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
with an opening in the center of the robe like that of a garment, with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear.
with an opening in the center of the robe like that of a garment, with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear.
And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
And the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.
and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.
And the hole of the robe was in the middes of it, as the coller of an habergeon, with an edge about the coller, that it shoulde not rent.
And little bells of the purest gold, which they put between the pomegranates at the bottom of the tunick round about:
and the opening of the upper robe `is' in its midst, as the opening of a habergeon, a border `is' to its opening round about, it is not rent;
and the opening of the upper robe [is] in its midst, as the opening of a [linen] habergeon, [with] a border for its opening all around; it is not torn;
It had an opening for the head in the middle. The opening had a woven edge round about so that it did not tear.
The opening of the robe in the middle of it like an opening of a garment. The edge for its opening was all around so that it could not tear.
and the opening of the cloak in its middle, as the opening of a coat of mail; a binding was round about the opening, that it should not rend.
The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
And there was a hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band around the hole, that it should not rend.
with an opening in the middle at the top. They stitched a woven collar around the opening to strengthen it so it wouldn't tear.
With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong.
and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is תַחְרָ֑א corselet H8473 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
תַחְרָ֑א corselet H8473 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 31 words from the Hebrew and 26 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.
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.
וּפִֽי הַמְּעִ֥יל בְּתוֹכ֖וֹ כְּפִ֣י תַחְרָ֑א שָׂפָ֥ה לְפִ֛יו סָבִ֖יב לֹ֥א יִקָּרֵֽעַ
The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὁράω μωυσῆς πᾶς ὁ ἔργον καί εἰμί ποιέω αὐτός ὅς τρόπος συντάσσω κύριος ὁ μωυσῆς οὕτως ποιέω αὐτός καί εὐλογέω αὐτός μωυσῆς
And Moses saw all the works; and they had done them all as the Lord commanded Moses, so had they made them; and Moses blessed 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.
וּפוּם מְעִילָא כָּפִיל לְגַוֵהּ כְּפוּם שִׁרְיָן תּוֹרָא מַקַף לְפוּמֵהּ סְחוֹר סְחוֹר לָא יִתְבְּזָע:
(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.
וּפוּם מִנְטַר מְעִילָא כְּפִיל בְּמִיצְעֵיהּ הֵי כְּפוּם שִׁירְיָא תוֹרָא בְּשִיפְתֵיהּ מַקַּף לְפוּמֵיהּ חֲזוֹר חֲזוֹר מְטוּל דְּלָא יִתְבְּזָע
And the aperture of the upper robe (was) double in the midst, like the opening of a piece of armour, with a border round about its edge, that it might not be torn.
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 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tachărâʼ (“corselet”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 39:23 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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.