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Green's Literal Translation

Exodus 39:2

And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and crimson, and twined bleached linen .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Colors;   Ephod;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ephod;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephod (1);   Images;   Priest, High;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He made the efod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
King James Version
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Lexham English Bible
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen.
New Century Version
They made the holy vest of gold, and blue, purple, and red thread, and fine linen.
New English Translation
He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.
Amplified Bible
Bezalel made the ephod of gold, and of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, and fine twisted linen.
New American Standard Bible
He made the ephod of gold and of violet, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So he made the Ephod of gold, blewe silke, and purple, and skarlet, and fine twined linen.
Legacy Standard Bible
He made the ephod of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen.
Contemporary English Version
The entire priestly vest was made of fine linen, woven with blue, purple, and red wool. Thin sheets of gold were hammered out and cut into threads that were skillfully woven into the vest.
Complete Jewish Bible
(RY: v, LY: ii) He made the ritual vest of gold, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely woven linen.
Darby Translation
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus.
Easy-to-Read Version
They made the ephod from gold thread, fine linen, and blue, purple, and red yarn.
English Standard Version
He made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.
George Lamsa Translation
And they made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Good News Translation
They made the ephod of fine linen; blue, purple, and red wool; and gold thread.
Christian Standard Bible®
Bezalel made the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he made the ouer body cote, of golde, yalowe sylke, scarlet, purple, & whyte twyned sylke,
American Standard Version
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Bible in Basic English
The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he made the Ephod of golde, blewe silke, purple, scarlet, and whyte twyned silke.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
King James Version (1611)
And he made the Ephod of gold, blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the offering of silver from the men that were numbered of the congregation a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, one drachm apiece, even the half shekel, according to the holy shekel.
English Revised Version
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Berean Standard Bible
Bezalel made the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor he made the `cloth on the schuldris of gold, iacynt, and purpur, and of reed selk twies died,
Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen,
Update Bible Version
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he made the ephod [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
World English Bible
He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
New King James Version
He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine woven linen.
New Living Translation
Bezalel made the ephod of finely woven linen and embroidered it with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
New Life Bible
Bezalel made the linen vest of gold and blue, purple and red cloth and fine linen.
New Revised Standard
He made the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he made the ephod, - of gold, blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine twined linen,
Douay-Rheims Bible
So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen,
Revised Standard Version
And he made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen.
THE MESSAGE
Ephod. They made the Ephod using gold and blue, purple, and scarlet fabrics and finely twisted linen. They hammered out gold leaf and sliced it into threads that were then worked into designs in the blue, purple, and scarlet fabric and fine linen. They made shoulder pieces fastened at the two ends. The decorated band was made of the same material—gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material, and of fine twisted linen—and of one piece with it, just as God had commanded Moses.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He made the ephod of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen.

Contextual Overview

1 And from the blue and the purple and the crimson they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary. And they made the holy garments which were for Aaron, as Jehovah commanded Moses. 2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and crimson, and twined bleached linen . 3 And they beat out sheets of gold, and cut threads to work into the midst of the blue, and into the midst of the purple, and into the midst of the crimson, and into the midst of the bleached linen , the work of an artisan. 4 They made shoulderpieces for it, joined together; it was joined on its two ends. 5 And its fastening band was on it; it was of it, like its work, gold, blue, and purple, and crimson, and twined bleached linen , as Jehovah commanded Moses. 6 And they made stones of onyx set in plaited work of gold, engraved with engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel. 7 And he put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as Jehovah commanded Moses. 8 And he made the breast pocket, a work of an artisan, like the work of the ephod: gold, blue, purple, and crimson, and twined bleached linen ; 9 it was square. They made the breast pocket double; its length a span and its width a span, doubled. 10 And they set it in four rows of stones: one row, the first row: a ruby, a topaz and an carbuncle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 25:7, Exodus 28:6-12, Leviticus 8:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:2 - holy garments Exodus 28:4 - ephod Exodus 28:5 - gold Exodus 39:18 - ephod

Cross-References

Genesis 21:22
And it happened at that time Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.
Genesis 26:24
And Jehovah appeared to him in the same night, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you; and I will bless you and increase your seed, because of My servant Abraham.
Genesis 26:28
And they said, Since we plainly have seen that Jehovah has been with you, and we have said, let there be an oath now between us, between us and you, and let us cut a covenant with you,
Genesis 28:15
And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you.
Genesis 39:9
No one in this house is greater than I, and he has not withheld anything from me except you, because you are his wife. And how should I do this great evil and sin against God?
Genesis 39:10
And it happened, as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her, to lie beside her, to be with her.
Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison house, the place where the king's prisoners were bound. And he was there in the prison house.
Genesis 39:21
And Jehovah was with Joseph, and extended kindness to him. And He gave him favor in the eyes of the warden of the prison house.
Genesis 39:22
And the warden of the prison house gave all the prisoners in the prison house into Joseph's hand. And all which they did there, he was doing.
1 Samuel 3:19
And Samuel grew up, and Jehovah was with him, and did not let any of his words fall to the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 2-31. And he made the ephod of gold,.... From hence to the end of verse thirty one we have a very particular account of the making of the priest's garments exactly according to the directions given to Moses, :- c. to end of chapter twenty eight only it may be observed, that here in Exodus 39:3 an account is given of the manner in which they made the gold fit to be worked along with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; they beat the gold into thin plates, and then cut them into wires, and then twisted them together with the yarn: the gold that was used in the weaving of the ephod and the breastplate, spoken of in the law, was wrought after this manner; the workman took one thread of pure gold, and put it with six threads of blue, and twisted the seven threads as one, and so he wrought a thread of gold with six of purple, and another thread with six of scarlet, and another with six of linen or flax, so that there were four threads of gold, and all the threads were twenty eight, as it is said; "they did beat" or spread out "the gold", c. "to work in the midst of blue", c. from whence is learnt that the thread of gold was twisted in the midst of them y: and it may be further observed, that after the enumeration of the stones in the breastplate, Exodus 39:10 no mention is made of the Urim and Thummim, which seems to confirm the opinion of many, and which is my own, that they are the same with the stones: moreover, in Exodus 39:28, it may be observed, that what the coats for the common priests were made of is expressed, which is not before, which was linen expressive of their purity and holiness, and in which they ought always to appear before God and man, and in which apparel they have been imitated among the Heathens: the priests of Hercules are said to be clothed with linen z, and the Egyptian priests wore only a linen garment a hence the priests of Isis, with whom she is represented as surrounded by Juvenal b, are called by him "grex liniger", and by Martial, "linigeri" c.

y Maimon. Cele Hamikdash, c. 9. sect. 5. z Silius Ital. de Bell. Punic. l. 3. a Herodot. Euterpe sive, l. 2. c. 38. b Satyr. 6. c L. 12. Epigram. 26.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 39:2. Ephod — See this described, Exodus 25:7. Exodus 25:7; Exodus 25:7.


 
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