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Exodus 37:12

And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Measure;   Shewbread (Showbread);  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Handbreadth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Coping;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Crown;   Table of Showbread;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Handicraft;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Border;   Crown;   Handbreadth;   Shewbread, the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.
King James Version
Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
Lexham English Bible
And he made for it a handbreadth rim all around, and he made a gold molding for its rim all around.
New Century Version
He made a frame three inches high that stood up all around the edge, and he put a gold strip around it.
New English Translation
He made a surrounding frame for it about three inches wide, and he made a surrounding border of gold for its frame.
Amplified Bible
He made a rim for it [just under the top] a hand width wide all around, and a border of gold around its rim.
New American Standard Bible
And he made a rim for it of a hand width all around, and made a gold molding for its rim all around.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also he made thereto a border of an hand breadth round about, and made vpon the border a crowne of golde round about.
Legacy Standard Bible
He made a rim for it of a handbreadth all around and made a gold molding for its rim all around.
Complete Jewish Bible
He made around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a molding of gold around the rim.
Darby Translation
And he made for it a margin of a hand-breadth round about; and made a border of gold for the margin thereof round about.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then he made a frame 1 handbreadth wide around the table. He put gold trim on the frame.
English Standard Version
And he made a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and made a molding of gold around the rim.
George Lamsa Translation
Also he made for it a border of a handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
Good News Translation
He made a rim 3 inches wide around it and put a gold border around the rim.
Christian Standard Bible®
He made a three-inch frame all around it and made a gold molding all around its frame.
Literal Translation
And he made for it a border of a hand's breadth all around. And he made a wreath of gold for its border all around.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and made vnto it an whoope of an hande bredth hye, and made a crowne of golde rounde aboute the whoope.
American Standard Version
And he made unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And made therevnto an hoope of an hande brode rounde about: and made vpon the hoope a crowne of golde rounde about.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he made unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
King James Version (1611)
Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth, round about: and made a crowne of gold for the border thereof round about.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and their pillars three, and their sockets three.
English Revised Version
And he made unto it a border of an handbreadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Berean Standard Bible
He also made a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he made to that brynke a goldun coroun, rasid bitwixe of foure fyngris; and on the same coroun he made anothir goldun coroun.
Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and maketh a wreath of gold for its border round about;
Update Bible Version
And he made to it a border of a handbreadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Webster's Bible Translation
Also he made to it a border of a hand-breadth round about; and made a crown of gold for its border round about.
World English Bible
He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.
New King James Version
Also he made a frame of a handbreadth all around it, and made a molding of gold for the frame all around it.
New Living Translation
He decorated it with a 3-inch border all around, and he ran a gold molding along the border.
New Life Bible
He made a piece around it as wide as a hand. And he put gold on the side of this piece all around.
New Revised Standard
He made around it a rim a handbreadth wide, and made a molding of gold around the rim.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he mane thereto a border of a handbreadth, round about, and he made a rim of gold to the border thereof round about:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And to the ledge itself he made a polished crown of gold, of four fingers breadth, and upon the same another golden crown.
Revised Standard Version
And he made around it a frame a handbreadth wide, and made a molding of gold around the frame.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He made a rim for it of a handbreadth all around, and made a gold molding for its rim all around.

Contextual Overview

10 And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high; 11 Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it. 12 And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round. 13 And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the angles of its four feet. 14 The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table was to be lifted. 15 The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold. 16 And all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and basins and the cups for liquids, he made of the best gold. 17 Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal: 18 It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other; 19 Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

handbreadth: Genesis 21:16

Cross-References

Genesis 33:18
So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.
Genesis 37:1
Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 37:25
Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels.
Genesis 37:31
Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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