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Exodus 39:4

And they made two bands for joining its edges together at the top of the arms.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Colors;   Ephod;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ephod, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - High Priest;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cloth, Clothing;   High Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ephod;   Scarlet;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High priest;   Ouches;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Edge;   Images;   Priest, High;   Shoulder-Piece;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.
King James Version
They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
Lexham English Bible
They made joined shoulder pieces for it; it was joined on its two edges.
New Century Version
They made the shoulder straps for the holy vest, which were attached to the top corners of the vest and tied together over each shoulder.
New English Translation
They made shoulder pieces for it, attached to two of its corners, so it could be joined together.
Amplified Bible
They made attaching shoulder pieces for the ephod; it was attached at its two [upper] edges.
New American Standard Bible
They made attaching shoulder pieces for the ephod; it was attached at its two upper ends.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the which they made shoulders to couple together: for it was closed by the two edges thereof.
Legacy Standard Bible
They made joining shoulder pieces for the ephod; it was joined at its two upper ends.
Contemporary English Version
It had two shoulder straps to support it and a sash that fastened around the waist.
Complete Jewish Bible
They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; they were joined together at the two ends.
Darby Translation
They made shoulder-pieces for it, joining it: at its two ends was it joined together.
Easy-to-Read Version
They made the shoulder pieces for the ephod. They tied these shoulder pieces to the two corners of the ephod.
English Standard Version
They made for the ephod attaching shoulder pieces, joined to it at its two edges.
George Lamsa Translation
They made shoulder-pieces for it, to join it together; by the two edges was it joined together.
Good News Translation
They made two shoulder straps for the ephod and attached them to its sides, so that it could be fastened.
Christian Standard Bible®
They made shoulder pieces for attaching it; it was joined together at its two edges.
Literal Translation
They made shoulderpieces for it, joined together; it was joined on its two ends.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& made it so, that ye ouerbody cote came together by the edges on both the sydes.
American Standard Version
They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it joined together.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they made two sydes for it, to close them vp by the two edges.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it joined together.
King James Version (1611)
They made shoulder pieces for it, to couple it together; by the two edges was it coupled together.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the hundred talents of silver went to the casting of the hundred chapiters of the tabernacle, and to the chapiters of the veil;
English Revised Version
They made shoulderpieces for it, joined together: at the two ends was it joined together.
Berean Standard Bible
They made shoulder pieces for the ephod, which were attached at two of its corners, so it could be fastened.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he made tweyne hemmes couplid to hem silf to gidere, in euer either side of the endis; and `he made a girdil of the same colouris,
Young's Literal Translation
shoulder-pieces they have made for it, joining; at its two ends it is joined.
Update Bible Version
They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends it was joined together.
Webster's Bible Translation
They made shoulder-pieces for it, to couple [it] together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
World English Bible
They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.
New King James Version
They made shoulder straps for it to couple it together; it was coupled together at its two edges.
New Living Translation
The ephod consisted of two pieces, front and back, joined at the shoulders with two shoulder-pieces.
New Life Bible
They made shoulder pieces for the linen vest, joined at its two top ends.
New Revised Standard
They made for the ephod shoulder-pieces, joined to it at its two edges.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Shoulder-pieces, made they thereto, for joining, - at its two edges, was it joined.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either side,
Revised Standard Version
They made for the ephod shoulder-pieces, joined to it at its two edges.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They made attaching shoulder pieces for the ephod; it was attached at its two upper ends.

Contextual Overview

1 And from the needlework of blue and purple and red they made the robes used for the work of the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron, as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 2 The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen; 3 Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer. 4 And they made two bands for joining its edges together at the top of the arms. 5 And the beautifully worked band which went on it was of the same design and the same material, worked in gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 6 Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of gold and cut like the cutting of a stamp, with the names of the children of Israel. 7 These he put on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel, as the Lord had said to Moses. 8 The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best linen worked with gold and blue and purple and red. 9 It was square and folded in two, as long and as wide as the stretch of a man's hand; 10 And on it they put four lines of stones: in the first line was a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:7 - General Exodus 28:25 - of the ephod

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.
Genesis 18:3
And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:
Genesis 19:19
See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;
Genesis 24:2
And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:
Genesis 32:5
And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.
Genesis 33:8
And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.
Genesis 33:10
And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.
Genesis 39:4
And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.
Genesis 39:5
And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.
Genesis 39:8
But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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