When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Whenever they went into the tent of meeting and whenever they went close to the altar, they washed themselves, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
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When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
They washed whenever they entered the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
They washed whenever they entered the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.
when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed: as the LORD commanded Moses.
When they went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and when they approched to the Altar, they washed, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it.
in their going in unto the tent of meeting, and in their drawing near unto the altar, they wash, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
in their going into the Tent of Meeting, and in their drawing near to the altar, they wash, as YHWH has commanded Moses.
whenever they would go into the tent of meeting and whenever they would go up to the altar. They washed themselves, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Whenever they went into the tent of meeting and whenever they went close to the altar, they washed themselves, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they drew near to the altar, they washed; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as the LORD commanded Moses.
When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near to the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.
They washed whenever they went into the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do.
Whenever they went into the Tent of meeting, and when they came near the altar, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the altar, they should wash; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Hebrew & Septuagint 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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בְּבֹאָ֞ם אֶל אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֗ד וּבְקָרְבָתָ֛ם אֶל הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ יִרְחָ֑צוּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת מֹשֶֽׁה
When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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καί οὐ δύναμαι μωυσῆς εἰςἔρχομαι εἰς ὁ σκηνή ὁ μαρτύριον ὅτι ἐπισκιάζω ἐπί αὐτός ὁ νεφέλη καί δόξα κύριος πίμπλημι ὁ σκηνή
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.
בְּמֵעַלְהוֹן לְמַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא וּבְמִקְרָבְהוֹן לְמַדְבְּחָא יְקַדְשׁוּן כְּמָא דִי פַקִיד יְיָ יָת משֶׁה:
(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.
בִּזְמַן מֵיעַלְהוֹן לְמַשְׁכַּן זִימְנָא וּבְמִקְרְבֵיהוֹן לְמַדְבְּחָא מְקַדְשִׁין הֵיכְמָא דְפַקֵּיד יְיָ יַת משֶׁה
at the time they entered into the tabernacle of ordinance, or approached unto the altar, they purified themselves, 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 (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is râchats (“to wash”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 40:32 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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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.
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).
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.