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Setting Up the Tabernacle

Exodus 40:19

In 11 translations

BSB
Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, just as the LORD had commanded him.
KJV
And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.
WEB
He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
ASV
And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
LSV
and spreads the tent over the Dwelling Place, and puts the covering of the tent on it above, as YHWH has commanded Moses.
YLT
and spreadeth the tent over the tabernacle, and putteth the covering of the tent upon it above, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
DBY
And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above over it; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
DRC40:17
And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as the Lord had commanded.
GNV
And he spred the couering ouer the Tabernacle, and put the couering of that couering on hie aboue it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
JPS
And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.
LXXE
And he stretched out the curtains over the tabernacle, and put the veil of the tabernacle on it above as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּפְרֹ֤שׂ אֶת־הָאֹ֨הֶל֙ עַל־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן וַיָּ֜שֶׂם אֶת־מִכְסֵ֥ה הָאֹ֛הֶל עָלָ֖יו מִלְמָ֑עְלָה כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐξέτεινε τὰς αὐλαίας ἐπὶ τὴν σκηνὴν, καὶ ἐπέθηκε τὸ κατακάλυμμα τῆς σκηνῆς ἐπʼ αὐτὴν ἄνωθεν, καθὰ συνέταξε Κύριος τῷ Μωυσῇ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 36:8–19All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into them. Each…
  • Exodus 26:1–14“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them. Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and…

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 40:17 in some Bibles
  • 40:19 in most Bibles
  • Mapping unverified: STEPBible TVTMS has rules for this verse in this edition's tradition that would place it elsewhere, but their tests did not match this edition.

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