Exodus 38 · Verse 10

Exodus 38:10

Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
Exodus 38:10, King James Version

Exodus 38:10 in other translations

BSBwith twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
WEBtheir pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
ASVtheir pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
YLTtheir pillars are twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty, the pegs of the pillars and their fillets are silver;
DARBYtheir pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of copper; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver.
BBETheir twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.
WebsterTheir pillars were twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, were of silver.

What does Exodus 38:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. hooks--The hooks of the pillars in the court were for hanging up the carcasses of the sacrificial beasts--those on the pillars at the entry of the tabernacle were for hanging the sacerdotal robes and other things used in the service.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 38:9-20

The walls of the court being of curtains only, intimated that the state of the Jewish church itself was movable and changeable; and in due time to be taken down and folded up, when the place of the tent should be enlarged, and its cords lengthened, to make room for the Gentile world.

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Exodus 38:10 in the original Hebrew

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עַמּוּדֵיהֶ֣ם'a.mu.dei.Hempillars theirH5982
עֶשְׂרִ֔ים'es.RimtwentyH6242
וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥םve.'ad.nei.Hemand bases theirH134
עֶשְׂרִ֖ים'es.RimtwentyH6242
נְחֹ֑שֶׁתne.Cho.shet[were] bronzeH5178
וָוֵ֧יva.Vei[the] hooks ofH2053
הָעַמֻּדִ֛יםha.'a.mu.Dimthe pillarsH5982
וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖םva.cha.shu.kei.Hemand bands theirH2838
כָּֽסֶף\׃Ka.sef[were] silverH3701

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

Context

  • Exodus 38:9

    And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:

  • Exodus 38:10

    Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

  • Exodus 38:11

    And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

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Exodus 38:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Sus columnas veinte, con sus veinte basas de metal: los capiteles de las columnas y sus molduras, de plata.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
leurs 20 piliers, et leurs 20 bases d’airain; les crochets des piliers et leurs baguettes d’attache étaient d’argent.
German
Elberfelder 1871
ihre zwanzig Säulen und ihre zwanzig Füße von Erz, die Haken der Säulen und ihre Bindestäbe von Silber.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
columnæ æneæ viginti cum basibus suis, capita columnarum, et tota operis cælatura, argentea.