Exodus 35:19

Summary

The verse lists the specific textiles required for the sanctuary service: the woven garments used le-sharet ("to serve", H8334) in the holy place, the holy garments belonging to Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons for their priestly service. It closes the inventory of materials requested from the people for the tabernacle construction.

Key words

• big.Dei ("garments of", H0899B) — masculine plural construct form, appearing three times, each time governing a different noun (the woven material, holiness, sons), producing three parallel construct chains: "garments of X."
• se.Rad ("woven material", H8278) — a technical noun describing a special weave, defining what kind of big.Dei are meant in the first phrase.
• sha.Ret ("serve", H8334) — piel infinitive of the verb for cultic service; the piel stem intensifies the action, marking specialized/official service rather than ordinary work.
• Ko.desh ("holy place" / "holiness", H6944J) — the same noun appears twice, first as a locative ("in the holy place") with the preposition ba ("in the", H9003), then as a construct qualifier ("garments of holiness").
• kha.Hen ("serve as priests", H3547) — piel infinitive from the same root as ko.hen ("priest", H3548), linking the noun "priest" and the verbal action "to act as priest" in the same verse.

What the text says

The verse is built on three parallel construct phrases, each headed by big.Dei ("garments of", H0899B) plus the untranslated direct object marker 'et (H0853). The first phrase, big.Dei ha-se.Rad ("garments of the woven material", H0899B + H8278), is followed by the purpose clause le-sha.Ret ba-Ko.desh ("to serve in the holy place"), using the piel infinitive sha.Ret (H8334) to indicate the function these garments perform. The second phrase, big.Dei ha-Ko.desh le-'Aharon ha-kohen ("garments of holiness for Aaron the priest"), assigns garments specifically to Aaron by name and title. The third phrase, big.Dei vanav le-kha.Hen ("garments of his sons to serve as priests"), uses the piel infinitive kha.Hen (H3547), built on the same consonantal root as kohen ("priest", H3548), so the Hebrew text visibly links the noun "priest" and the verb "to act as priest" within the same clause.

The construct chains do not require a possessive preposition in Hebrew; the relationship "garments of X" is expressed purely by word order and the construct form of big.Dei. The article ha (H9009) attaches to se.Rad and Ko.desh but the second Ko.desh (word 12) lacks a repeated preposition, since it directly modifies big.Dei as a genitive of quality ("garments of holiness," i.e., holy garments).

Differences between versions

The Septuagint text given (Swete) corresponds to a different verse content, mentioning χιτῶνας ("tunics"), oil, and incense rather than the threefold "garments" structure of the Hebrew; no direct comparison of wording is possible from the data supplied. The Vulgate renders the three Hebrew phrases more compactly, merging "vestimenta... in ministerio sanctuarii" with "vestes Aaron... ac filiorum ejus," combining what the Hebrew keeps as three separate construct phrases into a single flowing sentence.