Exodus 38 · Verse 20

Exodus 38:20

And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
Exodus 38:20, King James Version

Exodus 38:20 in other translations

BSBAll the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the surrounding courtyard were bronze.
WEBAll the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of bronze.
ASVAnd all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
YLTand all the pins for the tabernacle, and for the court round about, are of brass.
DARBYAnd all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court round about were of copper.
BBEAll the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.
WebsterAnd all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

What does Exodus 38:20 mean?

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 38:20 in the original Hebrew

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וְֽכָל\־ve.kholand allH3605
הַיְתֵדֹ֞תhay.te.Dotthe tent pegsH3489
לַמִּשְׁכָּ֧ןla.mish.Kanfor the tabernacleH4908
וְלֶחָצֵ֛רve.le.cha.Tzerand for the courtyardH2691
סָבִ֖יבsa.Vivall aroundH5439
נְחֹֽשֶׁת\׃\ \סne.Cho.shet[were] bronzeH5178

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

Cross references for Exodus 38:20

  • 2 Chronicles 3:9

    And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

  • Exodus 27:19

    All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

  • Isaiah 22:23

    And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.

  • Colossians 2:19

    And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

  • Ephesians 2:21-22

    In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

  • Ecclesiastes 12:11

    The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

  • Isaiah 33:20

    Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

  • Ezra 9:8

    And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

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27:19; 2Ch 3:9; Ezr 9:8; Ec 12:11; Isa 22:23; 33:20; Eph 2:21,22
Col 2:19

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Context

  • Exodus 38:19

    And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.

  • Exodus 38:20

    And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

  • Exodus 38:21

    This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

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Exodus 38:20 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y todas las estacas del tabernáculo y del atrio alrededor fueron de metal.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et tous les pieux du tabernacle et du parvis, à l’entour, étaient d’airain.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und alle Pflöcke zur Wohnung und zum Vorhof ringsum waren von Erz.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Paxillos quoque tabernaculi et atrii per gyrum fecit æneos.