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The Darby Translation

Exodus 37:12

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.

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round.
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 acacia-wood; two cubits the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made upon it a border of gold round about. 12 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. 13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that were on the four feet thereof. 14 Close to the margin were the rings, as receptacles of the staves to carry the table. 15 And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. 16 And he made the utensils that were on the table, the dishes thereof, and the cups thereof, and the bowls thereof, and the goblets with which to pour out, of pure gold. 17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold; [of] beaten work he made the candlestick: its base, and its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers were of itself. 18 And six branches went out of the sides thereof—three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof; 19 [there were] three cups shaped like almonds in the one branch, a knob and a flower; and three cups shaped like almonds in the other branch, a knob and a flower: so in the six branches which went out of the candlestick.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

handbreadth: Genesis 21:16

Cross-References

Genesis 33:18
And Jacob came safely [to the] city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city.
Genesis 37:1
And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned—in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 37:25
And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum—going to carry [it] down to Egypt.
Genesis 37:31
And they took Joseph's vest, and slaughtered a buck of the goats, and dipped the vest in the blood;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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