Exodus 35:11
אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּן אֶֽת־אָהֳלוֹ וְאֶת־מִכְסֵהוּ אֶת־קְרָסָיו וְאֶת־קְרָשָׁיו אֶת־בְּרִיחָיו אֶת־עַמֻּדָיו וְאֶת־אֲדָנָֽיו׃
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✦ The same verse in five languages
אֶת־הַ֨מִּשְׁכָּ֔ן אֶֽת־אָהֳל֖וֹ וְאֶת־מִכְסֵ֑הוּ אֶת־קְרָסָיו֙ וְאֶת־קְרָשָׁ֔יו אֶת־בְּרִיחָ֕יו אֶת־עַמֻּדָ֖יו וְאֶת־אֲדָנָֽיו׃
καὶ τὴν κιβωτὸν τοῦ μαρτυρίου καὶ τοὺς ἀναφορεῖς αὐτῆς καὶ τὸ ἱλαστήριον αὐτῆς καὶ τὸ καταπέτασμα,
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
tabernaculum scilicet, et tectum ejus, atque operimentum, annulos, et tabulata cum vectibus, paxillos, et bases:
el santuario con su carpa y su cubierta, sus ganchos, sus tablas, sus travesaños, sus postes y sus bases;
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
El tabernáculo, su tienda, y su cubierta, y sus anillos, y sus tablas, sus barras, sus columnas, y sus basas;
the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;
✦ What the text says
Summary
Exodus 35:11 lists the structural components of the tabernacle that the people are to bring materials and skill for: the tabernacle itself, its tent, its covering, and the various fittings — hooks, frames, bars, pillars, and bases. The verse is a chain of direct objects, each marked by the object marker and each bearing a third-person masculine singular suffix referring back to the tabernacle.
Key words
- mishKan ("tabernacle", H4908) — masculine singular noun, the main structure being described, head of the whole list.
- 'ohol ("tent", H0168G) — construct noun with suffix -o ("its"), naming the tent-covering as belonging to the tabernacle.
- mikhse ("covering", H4372) — construct noun with suffix -hu ("its"), the outer protective layer.
- qerashim ("frames", H7175) — masculine plural construct with suffix, the wooden framework panels of the structure.
- 'adanim ("bases", H0134) — masculine plural construct with suffix, the sockets or footings into which the frames and pillars are set.
What the text says
The Hebrew sentence is built almost entirely from a series of direct objects, each introduced by 'et (H0853), the untranslatable direct-object marker, and each noun carries a third-person masculine singular pronominal suffix ("his/its") pointing back to mishkan ("tabernacle"). This creates a chain: "[object marker] the tabernacle, [object marker] its tent, and [object marker] its covering," and so on through qerasav ("its hooks", H7165), qerashav ("its frames", H7175), berichav ("its bars", H1280), 'ammudav ("its pillars", H5982G), and 'adanav ("its bases", H0134). Several of these nouns are plural (frames, bars, pillars, bases, hooks), reflecting that the tabernacle required multiple identical parts of each kind, while mishkan, 'ohel, and mikhse are singular, referring to the structure and its two covering layers as single units. The repeated object-marker plus suffix pattern is a feature of Hebrew list-syntax that keeps every item grammatically anchored to the antecedent "tabernacle," a cohesion that flattens out in translation since English and other target languages do not repeat an object marker.
Differences between versions
The Hebrew list in this verse (tabernacle, tent, covering, hooks, frames, bars, pillars, bases) differs sharply from the Greek text supplied under LXXSWETE, which instead names "the ark of the testimony," "its carrying poles," "the mercy seat," and "the veil" — items that in the Hebrew textual tradition appear in a different part of the tabernacle-materials list. The Vulgate (tabernaculum...et tectum eius, atque operimentum, annulos, et tabulata cum vectibus, paxillos, et bases) follows the Hebrew item-order closely, rendering mikhse as operimentum ("covering") and grouping qerashim ("frames") with berichim ("bars") as tabulata cum vectibus, a slight compression not present in the Hebrew's separate listing.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.