וְנָֽתַתָּ֙ אֶת הַכִּיֹּ֔ר בֵּֽין אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵ֖ד וּבֵ֣ין הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ וְנָתַתָּ֥ שָׁ֖ם מָֽיִם
You shall set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
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Exodus 40:7
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 40:7 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 basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
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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.
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World English Bible Public Domain
You shall set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall put the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water there.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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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 basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And place the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And place the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And thou shalt set the Lauer betweene the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the Altar, and put water therein.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The laver between the altar and the tabernacle, and thou shalt fill it with water.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and hast put the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and hast put water there.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and have put the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and have put water [in] there.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
You must put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and you must put water in it.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall put the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water there.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water in it.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water in it.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Place the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And let the washing-vessel, with water in it, be put between the Tent of meeting and the altar.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
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הַכִּיֹּ֔ר
kîyôwr
H3595
“the · pot”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 23× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 30:18
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
pot, basin, laver, pan
- pot, caldron
- fire-pot, brazier
- basin, laver
- platform, stage
- וְנָֽתַתָּ֙ nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַכִּיֹּ֔ר kîyôwr H3595 “the · pot” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- בֵּֽין bêyn H996 “between” Preposition
- אֹ֥הֶל ʼôhel H168 “tent of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- מוֹעֵ֖ד môwʻêd H4150 “appointed time” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וּבֵ֣ין bêyn H996 “and · between” Conjunction + Preposition
- הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ mizbêach H4196 “the · altar” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְנָתַתָּ֥ nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שָׁ֖ם shâm H8033 “there” Adverb
- מָֽיִם mayim H4325 “water(s)” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, 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 →
- 11
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Cross-references
9Topical passages linked to Exodus 40:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Psalms 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence, So I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
- Zechariah 13:1 "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
- Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
- Hebrews 10:22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
- 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
- Exodus 30:18–21 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and the base of it of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
- Exodus 38:8 He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 40:30–32 He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
- Revelation 1:5–6 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
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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 →
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 כִּיוֹרָא בֵּין מַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא וּבֵין מַדְבְּחָא וְתִתֵּן תַּמָן מַיָא:
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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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְתִתֵּן יַת כִּיּוֹרָא בֵּינֵי מַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא וּבֵינֵי מַדְבְּחָא וְתִתֵּן תַּמָּן מוֹי מְטוּל חוֹבַיָא דְהַדְרִין בִּתְיוּבְתָּא וְשַׁדִיַין עַקְמוּמִיתְהוֹן הֵי כְמַיָא
And thou shalt place the laver between the tabernacle of ordinance and the altar, and put water therein for the sins of such as convert by repentance, and pour off their perversity like water.
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
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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (9 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.
Discussion questions
- What does “pot” (kîyôwr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Exodus 30:18, which shares the word «pot», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “to give” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וְנָֽתַתָּ֙» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- “to give” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 40:7 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.
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.