וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּ֙ עַל שׁוּלֵ֣י הַמְּעִ֔יל רִמּוֹנֵ֕י תְּכֵ֥לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֖ן וְתוֹלַ֣עַת שָׁנִ֑י מָשְׁזָֽר
They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 39:24
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 39:24 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
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King James Version Public Domain
And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
On the bottom hem of the robe they made pomegranates of twisted blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
They made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely spun linen on the lower hem of the robe.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
They made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely spun linen on the lower hem of the robe.
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King James Version Public Domain
And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, `and' twined `linen'.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And they made vpon the skirts of the robe pomegranates, of blewe silke, and purple, and skarlet, and fine linen twined.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate, wherewith the high priest went adorned, when he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and they make on the hems of the upper robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, twined.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and they make on the hems of the upper robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, twined.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
On the bottom hem, they made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and of fine linen.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
On the bottom hem of the robe they made pomegranates of twisted blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And they made on the skirts of the cloak pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet, twined.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
They made pomegranates using blue, purple, and crimson thread and finely-woven linen and attached them all the way around its hem.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The skirts of the robe were worked all round with fruits in blue and purple and red made of twisted linen.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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שׁוּלֵ֣י
shûwl
H7757
“skirts of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- Appears 11× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 28:33
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
skirt (of robe)
- of high priest's robe
- of God's train, city as woman, ignominy, defilement (figuratively)
- וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּ֙ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- שׁוּלֵ֣י shûwl H7757 “skirts of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- הַמְּעִ֔יל mᵉʻîyl H4598 “the · robe” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- רִמּוֹנֵ֕י rimmôwn H7416 “pomegranates of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- תְּכֵ֥לֶת tᵉkêleth H8504 “violet” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאַרְגָּמָ֖ן ʼargâmân H713 “and · purple” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְתוֹלַ֣עַת tôwlâʻ H8438 “and · worm of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- שָׁנִ֑י shânîy H8144 “scarlet” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- מָשְׁזָֽר shâzar H7806 “twisted” Verb, Hophal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- words
- 10
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שׁוּלֵ֣י skirt H7757 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שׁוּלֵ֣י skirt H7757 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 7 nouns
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- מָשְׁזָֽר Hophal · Participle Passive
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to Exodus 39:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 28:33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between them round about:
- Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
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.
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וַעֲבָדוּ עַל שִׁפּוֹלֵי מְעִילָא רִמוֹנֵי תִּכְלָא וְאַרְגְוָנָא וּצְבַע זְהוֹרִי שְׁזִיר:
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וַעֲבָדוּ עַל שִׁפּוֹלֵי מִנְטַר מְעִילָא רוֹמַנְיָן דְּתִכְלָא וְאַרְגְּוָונָא וּצְבַע זְהוֹרֵי שְׁזִיר
And they made upon the bottom of the upper robe pomegranates of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and (fine linen) entwined.
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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shûwl (“skirt”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “skirt” (shûwl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Exodus 28:33 shares the word «skirt» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- The verb «וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּ֙» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- 10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 39:24 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.
Ramban (Nachmanides)
Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)
Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.