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New Life Version

Exodus 36:20

Then he made the pillars of acacia wood for the meeting tent.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ablution;   Israel;   Tabernacle;   Thompson Chain Reference - Acacia Wood;   Trees;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Tabernacle;   Trees;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Upright, Uprightness;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Chrysolyte;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Shittim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Board;   Tabernacle;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He made the boards for the tent of shittim wood, standing up.
King James Version
And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
Lexham English Bible
And he made the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights.
New Century Version
Then they made upright frames of acacia wood for the Holy Tent.
New English Translation
He made the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights.
Amplified Bible
Bezalel made boards of acacia wood for the upright framework of the tabernacle.
New American Standard Bible
Then he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Likewise he made the boards for the Tabernacle, of Shittim wood to stand vp.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
Contemporary English Version
Acacia wood was used to build the framework for the walls of the sacred tent.
Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: v) He made the upright planks of acacia-wood for the tabernacle.
Darby Translation
And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up;
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the workers made frames from acacia wood to support the Holy Tent.
English Standard Version
Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
George Lamsa Translation
And they made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
Good News Translation
They made upright frames of acacia wood for the Tent.
Christian Standard Bible®
He made upright supports of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
Literal Translation
And he made the boards for the tabernacle, standing planks of acacia wood.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And made stondinge bordes for the Habitacion, of Fyrre tre,
American Standard Version
And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up.
Bible in Basic English
And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he made standyng boordes for the tabernacle, of Sittim wood.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up.
King James Version (1611)
And hee made boards for the Tabernacle of Shittim wood, standing up.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the fourth row a chrysolite and beryl and onyx set round about with gold, and fastened with gold.
English Revised Version
And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
Berean Standard Bible
Next, he constructed upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He made also stondynge tablis of the tabernacle of the trees of Sechym;
Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh the boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up;
Update Bible Version
And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he made boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood, standing up.
World English Bible
He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
New King James Version
For the tabernacle he made boards of acacia wood, standing upright.
New Living Translation
For the framework of the Tabernacle, Bezalel constructed frames of acacia wood.
New Revised Standard
Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he made the boards for the habitation, of acacia wood, for standing up:
Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also the boards of the tabernacle of setim wood standing.
Revised Standard Version
Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
THE MESSAGE
They framed The Dwelling with vertical planks of acacia wood, each section of frame fifteen feet long and two and a quarter feet wide, with two pegs for securing them. They made all the frames identical: twenty frames for the south side, with forty silver sockets to receive the two tenons from each of the twenty frames; they repeated that construction on the north side of The Dwelling. For the rear of The Dwelling facing west, they made six frames, with two additional frames for the rear corners. Both of the two corner frames were double in thickness from top to bottom and fit into a single ring—eight frames altogether with sixteen sockets of silver, two under each frame.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.

Contextual Overview

14 He made curtains of goat hair for a covering over the meeting tent. He made eleven curtains in all. 15 Each curtain was as long as fifteen long steps, and as wide as two long steps, all of them the same. 16 He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. 17 He took fifty small pieces of cloth, longer than they were wide. He sewed both ends of each to the side of the last curtain in the first row. Then he sewed fifty pieces onto the side of the last curtain in the second row. 18 He made fifty hooks of brass. And he put the hooks through the sewed pieces of cloth and joined the tent together as one. 19 He made a covering for the tent out of rams' skins made red, and a covering of badgers' skins over this. 20 Then he made the pillars of acacia wood for the meeting tent. 21 Each piece of wood was as long as five long steps, and as wide as one step. 22 He made two joining pieces in each piece of wood for joining them together. He did this for all the pieces of wood of the meeting tent. 23 He made twenty pieces of wood for the south side of the meeting tent.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

boards: Exodus 26:15-25, Exodus 40:18, Exodus 40:19

shittim wood: Exodus 25:5, Exodus 25:10, Numbers 25:1, Deuteronomy 10:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 36:21 - The length Numbers 3:36 - under the custody and charge

Cross-References

Genesis 14:6
and the Horites in their Mount Seir as far as El-paran near the desert.
Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
Genesis 36:22
The sons of Lotan are Hori and Hemam. Lotan's sister was Timna.
Genesis 36:30
Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the leaders of the Horites, by their families in the land of Seir.
Genesis 36:38
Then Shaul died. And Achbor's son Baalhanan became king in his place.
Genesis 36:42
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
Deuteronomy 2:12
The Horites once lived in Seir also. But the sons of Esau took their place. They destroyed them and took the land for themselves, as Israel did to the land which the Lord gave them for their own.)
Deuteronomy 2:22
It was as He did for the sons of Esau, who live in Seir. He destroyed the Horites, and the sons of Esau took their place and live in their land even to this day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 36:20. And he made boardsExodus 26:15; Exodus 26:15, &c.


 
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