They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And they put a cord of blue on it to attach it on the top of the turban, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
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They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Then they fastened to it a blue cord to mount it on the turban, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Then they fastened to it a blue cord to mount it on the turban, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And they tied vnto it a lace of blewe silke to fasten it on hie vpon the miter, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
So all the work of the tabernacle and of the roof of the testimony was finished: and the children of Israel did all things which the Lord had commanded Moses.
and they put on it a ribbon of blue, to put `it' on the mitre above, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
and they put a ribbon of blue on it, to put [it] on the turban above, as YHWH has commanded Moses.
They attached to the turban a blue cord to the top of the turban. This was as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
And they put a cord of blue on it to attach it on the top of the turban, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
And they fastened to it a lace of blue, to fasten [it] on the turban above; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And they tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the miter; as the LORD commanded Moses.
They tied a blue cord to it to attach it to the front of the turban, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do.
It was fixed to the head-dress by a blue cord, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
And they tied unto it a thread of blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is פְּתִ֣יל cord H6616 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
פְּתִ֣יל cord H6616 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ עָלָיו֙ פְּתִ֣יל תְּכֵ֔לֶת לָתֵ֥ת עַל הַמִּצְנֶ֖פֶת מִלְמָ֑עְלָה כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת מֹשֶֽׁה
They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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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 →
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.
וִיהָבוּ עֲלוֹהִי חוּטָא תְכֶלְתָּא לְמִתַּן עַל מִצְנֶפְתָּא מִלְעֵלָא כְּמָא דִי פַקִיד יְיָ יָת משֶׁה:
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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.
וְסַדָרוּ עֲלוֹי שְׁזִיר חוּטָא דְתִכְלָא מְטוֹל לְמִתַּן עַל מִצְנֶפְתָּא מִן לְעֵילָא דִתְפִילָתָא דְרֵישָׁא הֵיכְמָא דְפַקֵּיד יְיָ יַת משֶׁה
And they set upon it a twined ribbon of hyacinth, to put it upon the tiara above the forehead; as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
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 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pâthîyl (“cord”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 39:31 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 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.
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.