וְנָ֣תַתָּ֔ה אֵ֖ת מִזְבַּ֣ח הָעֹלָ֑ה לִפְנֵ֕י פֶּ֖תַח מִשְׁכַּ֥ן אֹֽהֶל מוֹעֵֽד
You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tent of the tent of meeting.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 40:6
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 40:6 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
You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tent of the tent of meeting.
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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
You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tent of the tent of meeting.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall put the altar of the burnt offering before the face of the gate of the Dwelling, the tent of meeting.
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
You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tent of the tent of meeting.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And thou shalt set the altar of burnt-offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And thou shalt set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Moreouer, thou shalt set the burnt offering Altar before the doore of the Tabernacle, called the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And before it the altar of holocaust:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and hast put the altar of the burnt-offering before the opening of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and have put the altar of the burnt-offering before the opening of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
You must put the altar for burnt offerings in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall put the altar of the burnt offering before the face of the gate of the Dwelling, the tent of meeting.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt set the altar of burnt-offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
“You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt set the altar of the, burnt-offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Set up the altar of burnt offering opposite the entrance to the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And put the altar of burned offerings before the doorway of the House of the Tent of meeting.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And thou shalt set the altar of burnt-offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
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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מִשְׁכַּ֥ן
mishkân
H4908
“dwelling place of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- Appears 139× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 25:9
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
dwelling place, tabernacle
- dwelling-place
- dwellings
- וְנָ֣תַתָּ֔ה nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֵ֖ת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- מִזְבַּ֣ח mizbêach H4196 “altar of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הָעֹלָ֑ה ʻôlâh H5930 “the · burnt offering” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- לִפְנֵ֕י pânîym H6440 “to/for · face(s) of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
- פֶּ֖תַח pethach H6607 “doorway of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- מִשְׁכַּ֥ן mishkân H4908 “dwelling place of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֹֽהֶל ʼôhel H168 “tent of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- מוֹעֵֽד môwʻêd H4150 “appointed time” Noun, Common, 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 →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 7 nouns
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וְנָ֣תַתָּ֔ה Qal · Sequential Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 37 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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 9 Hebrew tokens and 13 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.
Cross-references
7Topical passages linked to Exodus 40:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 40:29 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal-offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 27:1–8 "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.
- Exodus 38:1–7 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.
- Ephesians 1:6–7 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,
- Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
- 1 John 2:2 And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
- 1 John 4:9–10 By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
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.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 37 words vs World English Bible 19. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ὁ θυσιαστήριον ὁ κάρπωμα τίθημι παρά ὁ θύρα ὁ σκηνή ὁ μαρτύριον
And you shall put the altar of burnt offerings by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and you shall set up the tabernacle round about, and you shall hallow all that belongs to it round about.
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 →
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)
וְתִתֵּן יָת מַדְבְּחָא דַעֲלָתָא קֳדָם תְּרַע מַשְׁכְּנָא מַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא:
(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)
וְתִתֵּן יַת מַדְבְּחָא דְעָלָתָא קֳדָם תְּרַע מַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא מְטוּל עֲתִירַיָא דִמְסַדְרִין פָּתוֹרָא קֳדָם תַּרְעֵיהוֹן וּמְפַרְנְסִין מִסְכֵּנַיָא וּמִשְׁתְּבֵיק לְהוֹן חוֹבֵיהוֹן כְּאִילוּ מְקַרְבִין עֲלָתָא עַל מַדְבְּחָא
And thou shalt place the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; because the rich, who spread the table before their doors and feed the poor, shall have their sins forgiven what time they make the offering upon the altar.
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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mishkân (“dwelling place”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “dwelling place” (mishkân) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Exodus 40:29 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs longer here. What questions does that raise?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «וְנָ֣תַתָּ֔ה» is Qal Sequential Perfect. 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
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 40:6 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.
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.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — 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.