Exodus 25:13

Exodus 25:13

And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

a. NLT: Make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

b. NIV: Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

c. YLT: and thou hast made staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold,

d. Amplified Bible Classic: You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold,

e. Septuagint: And thou shalt make staves incorruptible wood, and shalt gild them with gold.

f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: You shall make staves of acacia wood and cover them with gold;

1. “And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood…”

a. thou shalt make [Strong: 6213 * `asah aw-saw' a primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows):--accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.]

b. staves [Strong: 905 * bad bad from 909; properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of a tree, bar for carrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besides:--alone, apart, bar, besides, branch, by self, of each alike, except, only, part, staff, strength.]

c. of shittim [Strong: 7848 * shittah shit-taw' feminine of a derivative (only in the plural shittiym {shit-teem'}; meaning the sticks of wood) from the same as 7850; the acacia (from its scourging thorns):--shittah, shittim.]

d. wood [6086 * `ets ates from 6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks):--+ carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.]

2. “…and overlay them with gold.”

a. and overlay [Strong: 6823 * tsaphah tsaw-faw' a primitive root (probably identical with 6822 through the idea of expansion in outlook, transferring to action); to sheet over (especially with metal):--cover, overlay.]

b. them [Strong: 853 * 'eth ayth apparent contracted from 226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely):--(as such unrepresented in English).]

c. with gold [Strong: 2091 * zahab zaw-hawb' from an unused root meaning to shimmer; gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky:-- gold(-en), fair weather.]

1). The command that the Ark was to be carried or “borne” by four individuals was clearly commanded in the book of Numbers, and only a certain family of Levites were to carry the furniture of the tabernacle, which included the Ark of the Covenant. This was the purpose of the golden rings in the corners of the Ark and the staves of wood coverd with gold.

a). Numbers 3:27-32 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.

3:28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.

3:30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

3:31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.

3:32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.