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Literal Standard Version

Exodus 30:5

And you have made the poles of shittim wood, and have overlaid them with gold;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Altar;   Gold;   Incense;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Altars;   Altar of Incense;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Censer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Tabernacle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Censer;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - The Altar of Incense;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Shittim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Altar;   Holy Place;   Tabernacle;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Altar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement, Day of;   Censer;   Fly;   Ham;   Law, Reading from the;   Leviticus;   Nomism;   Triennial Cycle;  

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Make the poles of acacia-wood, and overlay them 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"And you have made an altar [for] making incense; you make it of shittim wood; 2a cubit its length and a cubit its breadth (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns [are] of the same. 3And you have overlaid it with pure gold—its top, and around its sides, and its horns; and you have made a crown of gold for it all around; 4and you make two rings of gold for it, under its crown on its two ribs; you make [them] on its two sides, and they have become places for poles to carry it with them. 5And you have made the poles of shittim wood, and have overlaid them with gold;6and you have put it before the veil, which [is] by the Ark of the Testimony, before the propitiatory covering which [is] over the Testimony, where I meet with you. 7And Aaron has made incense on it, incense of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right, he makes incense [on] it, 8and in Aaron's causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he makes incense [on] it; [it is] a continual incense before YHWH throughout your generations. 9You do not cause strange incense to go up on it—and burnt-offering and present; and you do not pour out a drink-offering on it; 10and Aaron has made atonement on its horns once in a year, by the blood of the sin-offering of atonements; once in a year he makes atonement for it, throughout your generations; it [is] most holy to YHWH."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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.


 
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