He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
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He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
And he took the testimony and put into the box. And he put the poles on the box and put the atonement lid on the top of the box.
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He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.
Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark:
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark:
And he tooke and put the Testimonie in the Arke, and put the barres in the ringes of the Arke, and set the Merciseate on hie vpon the Arke.
And he set the table in the tabernacle of the testimony at the north side without the veil,
And he taketh and putteth the testimony unto the ark, and setteth the staves on the ark, and putteth the mercy-seat on the ark above;
And he takes and puts the Testimony into the Ark, and sets the poles on the Ark, and puts the propitiatory covering on the Ark above;
He took the covenant decrees and put them into the ark. He also placed the poles on the ark and put the atonement lid on it.
And he took the testimony and put into the box. And he put the poles on the box and put the atonement lid on the top of the box.
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and put the staves in the ark, and put the mercy-seat above on the ark.
He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staffs on the ark, and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark:
Moses took the Testimony and put it in the Ark. He attached the poles to the Ark, and he placed the atonement cover on the top of the Ark.
And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and the cover over it;
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the ark-cover above upon the ark.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַכַּפֹּ֛רֶת mercy seat H3727 occurs in 22 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 17 Hebrew tokens and 15 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.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיִּקַּ֞ח וַיִּתֵּ֤ן אֶת הָעֵדֻת֙ אֶל הָ֣אָרֹ֔ן וַיָּ֥שֶׂם אֶת הַבַּדִּ֖ים עַל הָאָרֹ֑ן וַיִּתֵּ֧ן אֶת הַכַּפֹּ֛רֶת עַל הָאָרֹ֖ן מִלְמָֽעְלָה
He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί λαμβάνω ὁ μαρτύριον ἐνβάλλω εἰς ὁ κιβωτός καί ὑποτίθημι ὁ διωστήρ ὑπό ὁ κιβωτός
And he took the testimonies, and put them into the ark; and he put the staves by the sides of the ark.
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.
וּנְסִיב וִיהַב יָת סַהֲדוּתָא לַאֲרוֹנָא וְשַׁוִי יָת אֲרִיחַיָא עַל אֲרוֹנָא וִיהַב יָת כַּפֻּרְתָּא עַל אֲרוֹנָא מִלְעֵלָא:
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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.
וּנְסֵיב יַת תְּרֵין לוּחֵי אַבְנָא לוּחֵי קְיָימָא דְאִתְיְהִיבוּ לֵיהּ בְּחוֹרֵב וַהֲווּ קַיְימִין עַל אָת בְּבֵית אוּלְפָנָא הִנּוּן לוּחֵי סַהֲדוּתָא וְתַבְרֵי לוּחַיָא בְּאָרוֹנָא וְשַׁוִי יַת אֲרִיחַיָא עַל אֲרוֹנָא וִיהַב יַת כַּפּוּרְתָּא בַּהֲדֵי כְּרוּבַיָא דְנַפְקִין נְגִיד מִינָהּ עַל אֲרוֹנָא מִלְעֵילָא
And he took the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which were given to him in Horeb, and set them up for a sign in the House of Instruction: they are the tables of the testimony. And the broken tables (he deposited) in the ark. And he set the staves in the ark, and placed the mercy seat, with the kerubaia that were produced for it of beaten work, upon the ark above.
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 17 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kappôreth (“mercy seat”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 40:20 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.
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.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
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.
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.