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Exodus 25:40
40See that you make them according to their pattern being shown to you on the mountain.
Exodus 25:40 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
- New International Version (NIV)See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
Context of Exodus 25:40
38“The tongs and the censers are to be of pure gold. 39It is to be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these pieces. See that you make them according to their pattern being shown to you on the mountain.
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וּרְאֵ֖ה וַעֲשֵׂ֑ה בְּתַ֨בְנִיתָ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֥ה מָרְאֶ֖ה בָּהָֽר׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Exodus 25:40
- Exodus 26:30“You are to raise up the Tabernacle according to the plan which you were shown on the mountain.
- Exodus 39:42According to everything that Adonai had commanded Moses, Bnei-Yisrael had done all the work just so.
- Numbers 8:4Now this is how the menorah was made: hammered gold from its base to its blossoms. Just as was the pattern that Adonai had shown to Moses, so he made the menorah.
- 1 Chronicles 28:11Then David gave Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, its houses, its storerooms, its upper rooms, its inner rooms, and the place of atonement;
- Ezekiel 43:11If they are ashamed of all they have done, sketch out the House for them, its layout, its exits and its entrances, its complete design, with all its ordinances and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so they may observe its complete design and all its ordinances and do them.
- Acts 7:44“Our fathers had the Tent of Witness in the wilderness—just as the One speaking to Moses had directed him to make it according to the design he had seen.
- Hebrews 8:5They offer service in a replica and foreshadower of the heavenlies—one that is just as Moses was instructed by God when he was about to complete the tabernacle. For He says, “See that you make everything according to the design that was shown to you on the mountain.”
Commentaries on Exodus 25:40
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 40And look that thou make, etc. - This verse should be understood as an order to Moses after the tabernacle, etc., had been described to him; as if he had said: "When thou comest to make all the things that I have already described to thee, with the other matters of which I shall afterwards treat, see that thou make every thing according to the pattern which thou didst see in the mount." The Septuagint have it, · according to the Type-form or fashion, which…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 31-40Verses 31-40 The candlestick represents the light of God's word and Spirit, in and through Christ Jesus, afforded in this dark world to his believing people, to direct their worship and obedience, and to afford them consolations. The church is still dark, as the tabernacle was, in comparison with what it will be in heaven; but the word of God is a light shining in a dark place, 2Pe 1:19, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. In ver. #(40)…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4040. look that thou make them after their pattern--This caution, which is repeated with no small frequency in other parts of the narrative, is an evidence of the deep interest taken by the Divine King in the erection of His palace or sanctuary; and it is impossible to account for the circumstance of God's condescending to such minute details, except on the assumption that this tabernacle was to be of a typical character, and eminently subservient to the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 25
- 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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