Exodus 35:16
אֵת׀ מִזְבַּח הָעֹלָה וְאֶת־מִכְבַּר הַנְּחֹשֶׁת אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ אֶת־בַּדָּיו וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלָיו אֶת־הַכִּיֹּר וְאֶת־כַּנּֽוֹ׃
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✦ The same verse in five languages
אֵ֣ת׀ מִזְבַּ֣ח הָעֹלָ֗ה וְאֶת־מִכְבַּ֤ר הַנְּחֹ֙שֶׁת֙ אֲשֶׁר־ל֔וֹ אֶת־בַּדָּ֖יו וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלָ֑יו אֶת־הַכִּיֹּ֖ר וְאֶת־כַּנּֽוֹ׃
καὶ τὴν λυχνίαν τοῦ φωτὸς καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
altare holocausti, et craticulam ejus æneam cum vectibus et vasis suis: labrum et basim ejus:
el altar de los holocaustos con su rejilla de bronce, sus varas y todos sus utensilios, el lavamanos con su base;
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
El altar del holocausto, y su enrejado de metal, y sus varas, y todos sus vasos, y la fuente con su basa;
the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;
✦ What the text says
Summary
Exodus 35:16 lists tabernacle furnishings brought as materials/equipment: the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating and poles, all its utensils, and the laver with its base. The verse consists entirely of direct objects, without its own finite verb, continuing a list from the preceding verses.
Key words
- miz.Bach ("altar of", H4196) — masculine singular construct, forming a construct chain with ha.'o.Lah to mean "altar of the burnt offering."
- mikh.Bar ("grating of", H4345) — construct noun linked to ha.ne.cho.shet ("the bronze"), producing "grating of the bronze," i.e., the bronze grating belonging to the altar.
- 'a.sher ("which", H0834A) plus lo ("to it") — a relative clause literally "which belongs to it," specifying that the grating in question is the one that belongs to the altar just named.
- ba.Da ("poles of", H0905G) — masculine plural construct with the suffix -o ("its"), yielding "its poles," referring back to the altar.
- ke.La ("articles of", H3627) — plural construct with suffix -o, "its articles/utensils," summarizing accessory items belonging to the altar.
What the text says
The verse is built as a chain of items each marked by the direct object marker 'et (H0853) or its variant 'et (H0854), all governed by a verb located earlier in the passage (not present in this verse itself). This produces a list structure: "the altar of the burnt offering, and the grating of the bronze that belongs to it, its poles, and all its utensils, the laver and its base." Hebrew syntax uses construct chains (miz.Bach ha.'o.Lah, mikh.Bar ha.ne.cho.shet, ba.Da-v, ke.La-v, ka.N-o) to express possession and specification without independent adjectives — each "of" relationship is encoded by placing one noun directly before another, the second carrying the article or a pronominal suffix. The relative clause 'a.sher lo ("which is to it") is inserted to clarify that the bronze grating belongs specifically to the altar mentioned first, rather than being a separate object. The repeated pronominal suffixes -o ("its") throughout the verse consistently tie the poles, utensils, and base back to the objects they belong to (the altar and the laver, respectively), a cohesion that is preserved in translation but is grammatically explicit in Hebrew through suffixation rather than separate possessive words.
Differences between versions
The Hebrew text lists the altar of burnt offering, its bronze grating, poles, utensils, the laver, and its base. The Vulgate (VULCLEM) and Spanish versions (RV1909, SBLIBRE) render this list with equivalent content, matching the Hebrew items. The Greek text supplied here (LXXSWETE) instead reads "the lampstand of light and all its vessels," referring to different tabernacle furnishings (the lampstand) rather than the altar and laver named in the Hebrew of this verse — this reflects a divergence in content between the provided Greek text and the Hebrew verse under discussion, rather than a translation variant of the same material.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.