New English Translation
Exodus 26:30
30You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan that 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 bar in the center of the frames will reach from end to end. 29You are to overlay the frames with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold. You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan that you were shown on the mountain. 31“You are to make a special curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; it is to be made with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer. 32You are to hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set in four silver bases.
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וַהֲקֵמֹתָ֖ אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן כְּמִ֨שְׁפָּט֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָרְאֵ֖יתָ בָּהָֽר׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Exodus 26:30
- Exodus 40:2“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
- Numbers 10:21And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; the tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.
- Joshua 18:1The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. Though they had subdued the land,
- Hebrews 8:2a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.
- Exodus 25:9According to all that I am showing you – the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings – you must make it exactly so.
- Exodus 27:8You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so they must make it.
- Acts 7:44Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.
- Hebrews 8:5The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”
- Hebrews 9:23So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.
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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