He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
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He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
And he placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and he put water for washing there.
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He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing;
He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing;
And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to wash.
And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, to wash withal.
Likewise he set the Lauer betweene the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the Altar, and powred water therein to wash with.
When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
And he putteth the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and putteth water there for washing,
And he puts the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and puts water [in] there for washing,
He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and he put water in it for washing.
And he placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and he put water for washing there.
And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing.
He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash with.
He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.
And between the altar and the Tent of meeting he put the vessel with water in it for washing.
And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to wash;
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַכִּיֹּ֔ר pot H3595 — appearing just 23 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַכִּיֹּ֔ר pot H3595 occurs in 20 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 the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 16 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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וַיָּ֨שֶׂם֙ אֶת הַכִּיֹּ֔ר בֵּֽין אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵ֖ד וּבֵ֣ין הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ וַיִּתֵּ֥ן שָׁ֛מָּה מַ֖יִם לְרָחְצָֽה
He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
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καί ἵστημι ὁ αὐλή κύκλος ὁ σκηνή καί ὁ θυσιαστήριον καί συντελέω μωυσῆς πᾶς ὁ ἔργον
No English rendering of this Greek verse — the small residue in the structurally divergent books.
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.
וְשַׁוִי יָת כִּיוֹרָא בֵּין מַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא וּבֵין מַדְבְּחָא וִיהַב תַּמָן מַיָא לְקִדוּשׁ:
(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.
וְשַׁוֵי יַת כִּיּוֹרָא עַל בְּסִיסֵיהּ בֵּינֵי מַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא וּבֵינֵי מַדְבְּחָא וִיהַב תַּמָּן מַיִין חַיִין לְקִידוּשׁ וְלָא פַּסְקִין וְלָא סַרְיַן כָּל יוֹמַיָא
And he set the laver upon its foundation between the tabernacle of ordinance and the altar, and put living water therein for purification, that it may not fail, nor become corrupt all the days.
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 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kîyôwr (“pot”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 40:30 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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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.
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.