Exodus 27 · Verse 10

Exodus 27:10

And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
Exodus 27:10, King James Version

Exodus 27:10 in other translations

BSBwith twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
WEBIts pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
ASVand the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
YLTand its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets are of brass, the pegs of the pillars and their fillets are of silver;
DARBYand the twenty pillars thereof, and their twenty bases of copper, the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver.
BBETheir twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver.
WebsterAnd its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shall be of brass: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

What does Exodus 27:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 27:9-19

9-19. the court of the tabernacle--The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that the people could see…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 27:9-19

The tabernacle was enclosed in a court, about sixty yards long and thirty broad, formed by curtains hung upon brazen pillars, fixed in brazen sockets. Within this enclosure the priests and Levites offered the sacrifices, and thither the Jewish people were admitted. These distinctions represented the difference between the visible nominal church, and the true spiritual church, which alone has access to God, and…

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Exodus 27:10 in the original Hebrew

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וְעַמֻּדָ֣יוve.'a.mu.Davand pillars itsH5982
עֶשְׂרִ֔ים'es.RimtwentyH6242
וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥םve.'ad.nei.Hemand bases theirH134
עֶשְׂרִ֖ים'es.RimtwentyH6242
נְחֹ֑שֶׁתne.Cho.shet[will be] bronzeH5178
וָוֵ֧יva.Vei[the] hooks ofH2053
הָעַמֻּדִ֛יםha.'a.mu.Dimthe pillarsH5982
וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖םva.cha.shu.kei.Hemand bands theirH2838
כָּֽסֶף\׃Ka.sef[will be] silverH3701

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 27:10

  • Jeremiah 52:21

    And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

  • Exodus 36:38

    And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.

  • Exodus 26:19-21

    And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards: And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
sockets shall be of brass.
26:19-21
fillets shall be of silver.
36:38; Jer 52:21

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Context

  • Exodus 27:9

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

  • Exodus 27:10

    And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

  • Exodus 27:11

    And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

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Exodus 27:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Sus veinte columnas, y sus veinte basas serán de metal; los capiteles de las columnas y sus molduras, de plata.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et ses 20 piliers, et leurs 20 bases d’airain; les crochets des piliers et leurs baguettes d’attache seront en argent.
German
Elberfelder 1871
und seine zwanzig Säulen und ihre zwanzig Füße von Erz, die Haken der Säulen und ihre Bindestäbe von Silber.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et columnas viginti cum basibus totidem æneis, quæ capita cum cælaturis suis habebunt argentea.