Exodus 27:8

What does Exodus 27:8 mean?

A plain-English look at Exodus 27:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Hollow with boards thou dost make it, as it hath been shewed thee in the mount, so do they make <FI>it<Fi> .

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside, as it was shewn thee in the mount.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it hath been shewn thee on the mountain, so shall they make [it].

Context

v.7And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it.

v.8This passage

v.9And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 26:30

    And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath been showed thee in the mount.

  • Colossians 2:20

    If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

  • Matthew 15:9

    But in vain do they worship me, Teachingas theirdoctrines the precepts of men.

  • 1 Chronicles 28:11

    Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porchof the temple, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper rooms thereof, and of the inner chambers thereof, and of the place of the mercy-seat;

  • 1 Chronicles 28:19

    All this, said David, have I been made to understand in writing from the hand of Jehovah, even all the works of this pattern.

  • Hebrews 8:5

    who servethat which isa copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warnedof Godwhen he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.

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