God’s Word Translation
Exodus 26:30
30“Set up the inner tent according to the plans you were shown on the mountain.
Exodus 26:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
- New International Version (NIV)“Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And you shall raise up the tabernacle according to its pattern which you were shown on the mountain.
Context of Exodus 26:30
28The middle crossbar will run from one end to the other, halfway up the frames. 29Cover the frames with gold, make gold rings to hold the crossbars, and cover the crossbars with gold. “Set up the inner tent according to the plans you were shown on the mountain. 31“Make a canopy of violet, purple, and bright red yarn. Creatively work an angel design into fine linen yarn. 32Use gold hooks to hang it on four posts of acacia wood covered with gold, standing in four silver sockets.
Read all of Exodus 26Exodus 26:30 word by word
וַהֲקֵמֹתָ֖ אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן כְּמִ֨שְׁפָּט֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָרְאֵ֖יתָ בָּהָֽר׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Exodus 26:30
- Exodus 40:2“Set up the tent (the tent of meeting) on the first day of the first month of the year.
- Numbers 10:21Then the Kohathites, who carried the holy things, broke camp. By the time they arrived, the tent ⌞of meeting⌟ would already be set up.
- Joshua 18:1The whole congregation of Israel gathered at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land was under their control.
- Hebrews 8:2He serves as priest of the holy place and of the true tent set up by the Lord and not by any human.
- Exodus 25:9Make the tent and all its furnishings exactly like the plans I am showing you.
- Exodus 27:8“Make the altar out of boards so that it’s hollow inside. It must be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
- Acts 7:44“In the desert our ancestors had the tent of God’s promise. Moses built this tent exactly as God had told him. He used the model he had seen.
- Hebrews 8:5They serve at a place that is a pattern, a shadow, of what is in heaven. When Moses was about to make the tent, God warned him, “Be sure to make everything based on the plan I showed you on the mountain.”
- Hebrews 9:23The copies of the things in heaven had to be cleansed by these sacrifices. But the heavenly things themselves had to be cleansed by better sacrifices.
Commentaries on Exodus 26:30
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-37Verses 1-37 (Compare Exodus 26:1-6, more strictly so-called, its tent Exodus 26:7-13, and its covering Exodus 26:14 (Compare Exodus 35:11; Exodus 39:33-34; Exodus 40:19, Exodus 40:34; Numbers 3:25, etc.). These parts are very clearly distinguished in the Hebrew, but they are confounded in many places of the English Version (see Exodus 26:7, Exodus 26:9, etc.). The tabernacle itself was to consist of curtains of fine linen woven with colored figures of…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-30Verses 15-30 The sockets of silver each weighed about 115 pounds; they were placed in rows on the ground. In every pair of these sockets, a strong board of shittim-wood, covered with plates of gold, was fitted by mortises and tenons. Thus walls were formed for the two sides, and for the west end. The wall was further held together by bars, which passed through rings of gold. Over this the curtains were spread. Though movable, it was strong and firm. The…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-37The tabernacle itself (not including the courtyard around it) was not very large. It was about 4.6 meters (15 feet) wide and 13.7 meters (45 feet) long. The main structure stood on 48 vertical frames. Each frame was 4.6 meters (15 feet) high and 68.6 centimeters (27 inches) wide (26:16). The frames were made of acacia wood and covered with gold (26:15, 29). Workers joined the frames together with horizontal crossbars. These bars formed a three-sided…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-3015-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave it solidity and compactness, it was evidently a more…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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