Exodus 30:5

Complete Jewish Bible

Make the poles of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall make the poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

King James Version
And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

Lexham English Bible
You will make the poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with gold.

New Century Version
Make the poles from acacia wood and cover them with gold.

New English Translation
You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Amplified Bible
"You shall make the poles of acacia wood overlaid with gold.

New American Standard Bible
"And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The which barres thou shalt make of Shittim wood, and shalt couer them with golde.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Contemporary English Version
These poles are also to be made of acacia wood covered with gold.

Darby Translation
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.

Easy-to-Read Version
Make the poles from acacia wood and cover them with gold.

English Standard Version
You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

George Lamsa Translation
And you shall make the poles of shittim wood and overlay them with gold.

Good News Translation
Make these poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold.

Christian Standard Bible®
Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Literal Translation
And you shall make the poles of acacia wood; and you shall overlay them with gold.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The staues shalt thou make of Fyrre tre also, and ouerlaye the with golde:

American Standard Version
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

Bible in Basic English
And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt make the barres of Sittim wood, & couer them with gold.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.

King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt make the staues of Shittim wood, and ouerlay them with gold.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt make the staves of incorruptible wood, and shalt gild them with gold.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

Berean Standard Bible
Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also thou schalt make tho barris of the trees of Sechym, and thou schalt ouergilde;

Young's Literal Translation
`And thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold;

Update Bible Version
And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt make the staffs of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

World English Bible
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

New King James Version
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

New Living Translation
Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

New Life Bible
Make the long pieces of acacia wood and cover them with gold.

New Revised Standard
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, - and overlay them with gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.

Revised Standard Version
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Contextual Overview

¹ (vii) "You are to make an altar on which to burn incense; make it of acacia-wood. ² It is to be eighteen inches square and three feet high; its horns are to be of one piece with it. ³ Overlay it with pure gold — its top, all around its sides, and its horns; and put around it a molding of gold. ⁴ Make two gold rings for it under its molding at the two corners on both sides; this is where the carrying-poles will go. ⁵ Make the poles of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. ⁶ "Place it in front of the curtain by the ark for the testimony, in front of the ark-cover that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you. ⁷ Aharon will burn fragrant incense on it as a pleasing aroma every morning; he is to burn it when he prepares the lamps. ⁸ (Maftir) Aharon is also to burn it when he lights the lamps at dusk; this is the regular burning of incense before Adonai through all your generations. ⁹ You are not to offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering or a grain offering; and you are not to pour a drink offering on it. ¹⁰ Aharon is to make atonement on its horns once a year — with the blood of the sin offering of atonement he is to make atonement for it once a year through all your generations; it is especially holy to Adonai ." Haftarah Tetzaveh: Yechezk'el (Ezekiel) 43:10–27 B'rit Hadashah suggested reading for Parashah Tetzaveh: Philippians 4:10–20 Adonai said to Moshe, "When you take a census of the people of Isra'el and register them, each, upon registration, is to pay a ransom for his life to Adonai , to avoid any breakout of plague among them during the time of the census. Everyone subject to the census is to pay as an offering to Adonai half a shekel [one-fifth of an ounce of silver]— by the standard of the sanctuary shekel (a shekel equals twenty gerahs). Everyone over twenty years of age who is subject to the census is to give this offering to Adonai — the rich is not to give more or the poor less than the half-shekel when giving Adonai 's offering to atone for your lives. You are to take the atonement money from the people of Isra'el and use it for the service in the tent of meeting, so that it will be a reminder of the people of Isra'el before Adonai to atone for your lives." Adonai said to Moshe, "You are to make a basin of bronze, with a base of bronze, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. Aharon and his sons will wash their hands and feet there when they enter the tent of meeting — they are to wash with water, so that they won't die. Also when they approach the altar to minister by burning an offering for Adonai , they are to wash their hands and feet, so that they won't die. This is to be a perpetual law for them through all their generations." Adonai said to Moshe, "Take the best spices — 500 shekels of myrrh [12 1/2 pounds], half this amount (250 shekels) of aromatic cinnamon [6 1/4 pounds], 250 shekels of aromatic cane, 500 shekels of cassia (use the sanctuary standard), and one gallon of olive oil — and make them into a holy anointing oil; blend it and perfume it as would an expert perfume-maker; it will be a holy anointing oil. Use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark for the testimony, the table and all its utensils, the menorah and all its utensils, the incense altar, the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils, and the basin with its base. You are to consecrate them — they will be especially holy, and whatever touches them will be holy. Then you are to anoint Aharon and his sons — you are to consecrate them to serve me in the office of cohen. "Tell the people of Isra'el, ‘This is to be a holy anointing oil for me through all your generations. It is not to be used for anointing a person's body; and you are not to make any like it, with the same composition of ingredients — it is holy, and you are to treat it as holy. Whoever makes any like it or uses it on any unauthorized person is to be cut off from his people.'" Adonai said to Moshe, "Take aromatic plant substances — balsam resin, sweet onycha root and bitter galbanum gum — these spices along with frankincense, all in equal quantities; and make incense, blended and perfumed as would an expert perfume-maker, salted, pure and holy. You are to grind up some of it very finely and put it in front of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; you are to regard it as especially holy. You are not to make for your own use any incense like it, with the same composition of ingredients — you are to treat it as holy, for Adonai . Whoever makes up any like it to use as perfume is to be cut off from his people."

Bible Verse Review
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Exodus 25:13, Exodus 25:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 36:31 - General 1 Kings 6:22 - also

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood,.... Of the same wood the altar itself was made:

and overlay them with gold; as that was; these rings and staves may be an emblem of the precious ordinances of Christ, in which he grants his presence; and where he is held forth in different ages and places as the interceding high priest of his people, their advocate with the Father, pleading continually his propitiatory sacrifice in their favour.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 37:25-28; Exodus 40:26-27. The altar of incense was to be a casing of boards of shittim wood Exodus 25:5, Exodus 25:18 inches square and three feet in height (taking the cubit as 18 inches), entirely covered with plates of gold. Four “horns” were to project upward at the corners like those of the altar of burnt-offering Exodus 27:2. A crown or moulding of gold was to run round the top. On each of two opposite sides there was to be a gold ring through which the staves were to be put when it was moved from place to place.

Exodus 30:4

By the two corners thereof - Not corners. See the margin. The sense appears to be: And two gold rings shalt thou make for it under its moulding; on its two sides shalt thou make them (i. e. one ring on each side).

Exodus 30:6

The place for the altar of incense was outside the veil, opposite to the ark of the covenant and between the candlestick on the south side and the showbread table on the north Exodus 40:22-24. It appears to have been regarded as having a more intimate connection with the holy of holies than the other things in the holy place; and the mention of the mercy-seat in this verse, if we associate with it the significance of incense as figuring the prayers of the Lord’s people Psalms 141:2; Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3-4, seems to furnish additional pound for an inference that the incense altar took precedence of the table of showbread and the candlestick.

Exodus 30:7

The lamps - See Exodus 25:37.

Exodus 30:7-8

The offering of the incense accompanied that of the morning and evening sacrifice. The two forms of offering symbolized the spirit of man reaching after communion with Yahweh, both in act and utterance. See Psalms 141:2.

Exodus 30:9

By this regulation, the symbolism of the altar of incense was kept free from ambiguity. atonement was made by means of the victim on the brazen altar in the court ontside; the prayers of the reconciled worshippers had their type within the tabernacle.

Exodus 30:10

See the marginal references.