Exodus 25:29

Summary

The verse instructs that four types of vessels belonging to the table — dishes, pans, jugs, and bowls — are to be made, specifying that these are the vessels "with which one pours" (libations), and that all of them must be made of pure gold.

Key words

• qe'arotav ("dishes", H7086) — feminine plural noun in construct form with a 3rd person suffix ("its dishes"), referring back to the table described earlier in the chapter.
• kappotav ("pans", H3709I) — feminine plural construct with suffix, the second item in the list of four vessel types.
• yussakh ("it will be poured out", H5258A) — hophal (passive-causative) imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular; the hophal stem marks the action as done to the liquid by an unstated agent, i.e., "that which is caused to be poured."
• zahav ("gold", H2091) and tahor ("pure", H2889) — a noun-adjective pair placed before the verb ta'aseh ("you will make", H6213H), which fronts the material as the emphasized element of the command.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence opens with a sequential perfect verb, 'asita ("you will make", H6213H), joined by the narrative vav that continues the instructions from the preceding verses about the table. Four feminine plural nouns follow, each in construct state with a 3rd person pronominal suffix (-av, "its/his"), all depending grammatically on the table mentioned earlier: "its dishes, and its pans, and its jugs, and its bowls." This construct chain ties each vessel type directly to the table as its possessor, rather than treating them as independent objects.

The relative clause 'asher yussakh bahen ("which will be poured out in them", H0834A + H5258A) uses the hophal verb form, which frames the pouring as something done to the liquid rather than naming who does the pouring. The clause describes the vessels' function without specifying an agent.

The final clause reverses normal word order: zahav tahor ("pure gold") is placed before the verb ta'aseh ("you will make", H6213H), fronting the material specification. This places grammatical emphasis on the substance (pure gold) before the object marker 'otam ("them", H0853 + H9038) restates the vessels as the object of the command.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate lists the four vessels as acetabula, phialas, thuribula, et cyathos, closely paralleling the Hebrew's four-item structure and its "pure gold" specification (ex auro purissimo). The LXX text supplied here describes placing showbread on the table continually, differing entirely in content from the Hebrew list of vessels — this suggests a difference in verse alignment between the Greek and Hebrew textual traditions at this point in the chapter rather than a translation of the same content.