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Christian Standard Bible ®

Exodus 37:2

He overlaid it with pure gold inside and out and made a gold molding all around it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ark;   Gold;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ark of the Covenant;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ark of the Covenant;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ark of the Covenant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Crown;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Handicraft;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crown;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ark of the covenant;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it round about.
King James Version
And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Lexham English Bible
And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and he made for it a gold molding all around.
New Century Version
He covered it, both inside and out, with pure gold, and he put a gold strip around it.
New English Translation
He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.
Amplified Bible
And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a molding (border) of gold to go all around [the top of it].
New American Standard Bible
and he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a gold molding for it all around.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And ouerlayde it with fine golde within and without, and made a crowne of golde to it rounde about,
Legacy Standard Bible
and he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a gold molding for it all around.
Contemporary English Version
He covered it inside and out with pure gold and put a gold edging around the top.
Complete Jewish Bible
He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside and put a molding of gold for it around the top.
Darby Translation
And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a border of gold upon it round about.
Easy-to-Read Version
He covered the inside and outside of the Box with pure gold. Then he put gold trim around the Box.
English Standard Version
And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold around it.
George Lamsa Translation
And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold for it round about.
Good News Translation
He covered it with pure gold inside and out and put a gold border all around it.
Literal Translation
And he overlaid it with pure gold, inside and outside. And he made for it a wreath of gold all around.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and ouerlayed it with fyne golde within and without, and made a crowne of golde vnto it rounde aboute,
American Standard Version
And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Bible in Basic English
Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And ouerlaide it with fine golde within & without, and made a crowne of golde to it rounde about.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
King James Version (1611)
And he ouerlaid it with pure gold within & without, and made a crowne of gold to it round about.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
of eight and twenty cubits the length of one curtain: the same measure was to all, and the breadth of one curtain was of four cubits.
English Revised Version
and he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Berean Standard Bible
He overlaid it with pure gold, both inside and out, and made a gold molding around it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he made to it a goldun coroun `bi cumpas,
Young's Literal Translation
and he overlayeth it with pure gold within and without, and maketh for it a wreath of gold round about;
Update Bible Version
and he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
World English Bible
He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it round about.
New King James Version
He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold all around it.
New Living Translation
He overlaid it inside and outside with pure gold, and he ran a molding of gold all around it.
New Life Bible
He covered it inside and out with pure gold. And he made a piece of gold to put on it all around.
New Revised Standard
He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold around it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he overlaid it with pure gold within and without,-and made for it a rim of gold, round about;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he made to it a crown of gold round about,
Revised Standard Version
And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a molding of gold around it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a gold molding for it all around.

Contextual Overview

1Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. 2He overlaid it with pure gold inside and out and made a gold molding all around it. 3He cast four gold rings for it, for its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. 4He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. 5He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark for carrying the ark. 6He made a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide. 7He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat, 8one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At each end, he made a cherub of one piece with the mercy seat. 9They had wings spread out. They faced each other and covered the mercy seat with their wings. The faces of the cherubim were looking toward the mercy seat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 30:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:25 - a golden crown to the border

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
Genesis 5:1
This is the document containing the family records of Adam. On the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God;
Genesis 6:9
These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 10:1
These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.
Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.
Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Genesis 35:22
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.
Genesis 37:22
Reuben also said to them, “Don’t shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him”—intending to rescue him from them and return him to his father.
Genesis 37:24
Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty, without water.
Genesis 37:25
They sat down to eat a meal, and when they looked up, there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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