Exodus 36:29

וְהָיוּ תוֹאֲמִם מִלְּמַטָּה וְיַחְדָּו יִהְיוּ תַמִּים אֶל־רֹאשׁוֹ אֶל־הַטַּבַּעַת הָאֶחָת כֵּן עָשָׂה לִשְׁנֵיהֶם לִשְׁנֵי הַמִּקְצֹעֹֽת׃

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✦ The same verse in five languages

Hebrew

וְהָי֣וּ תוֹאֲמִם֮ מִלְּמַטָּה֒ וְיַחְדָּ֗ו יִהְי֤וּ תַמִּים֙ אֶל־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ אֶל־הַטַּבַּ֖עַת הָאֶחָ֑ת כֵּ֚ן עָשָׂ֣ה לִשְׁנֵיהֶ֔ם לִשְׁנֵ֖י הַמִּקְצֹעֹֽת׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ συνέσφιγξεν τὸ λόγιον ἀπὸ τῶν δακτυλίων τῶν ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ εἰς τοὺς δακτυλίους τῆς ἐπωμίδος, συνεχομένους ἐκ τῆς ὑακίνθου, συνπεπλεγμένους εἰς τὸ ὕφασμα τῆς ἐπωμίδος, ἴνα μὴ χαλᾶται τὸ λήιον ἀπὸ τῆς ἐπωμίδος, καθὰ συνέταξεν κύριος τῷ Μωυσῇ.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

quæ junctæ erant a deorsum usque sursum, et in unam compaginem pariter ferebantur. Ita fecit ex utraque parte per angulos:

Spanish

Estas tablas estaban unidas por abajo y también por arriba, hasta la primera argolla. Así hizo las dos tablas para las dos esquinas.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Las cuales se juntaban por abajo, y asimismo por arriba á un gozne: y así hizo á la una y á la otra en las dos esquinas.

English

coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. He made both corners in this way.

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse describes how the frame boards of the tabernacle structure were constructed: doubled ("twinned") from the bottom, and joined together as a unified whole at the top, meeting at a single ring. This same construction method was applied to both corner boards.

Key words

to'aMim ("twins", H8380) — masculine plural noun describing the boards as paired or doubled in form from the bottom.
yachDav ("together", H3162B) — adverb emphasizing the unified joining of the two halves at the top.
taMim ("complete", H8535) — masculine plural adjective describing the state of being whole/complete once joined at the top.
rosh ("top", H7218I) with suffix o ("its") — construct form indicating "its top," the point where the pieces converge.
mikqtzo'ot ("corners", H4740H) — feminine plural noun, construct with "two of" (shnei, H8147), specifying that this construction applied to both corner units.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence uses two sequential verb forms of hayah ("to be", H1961): first haYu (sequential perfect, "they were") describing the twinned state from below, then yihYu (imperfect, "they were/would be") describing the joined state at the top. This shift in verbal aspect marks a temporal or logical sequence — the boards begin twinned at the base and result in being whole together at the summit. The phrase mi-lemaTah ("from downward", H9006+H9005+H4295) contrasts spatially with el-rosh ("to the top", H0413+H7218I), framing the entire vertical structure of the board from base to peak.

The final clause uses ken ("thus", H3651C) with 'asah ("he did", H6213H) in the perfect, summarizing that this exact method was applied identically to "the two of them" (li-shneihem, H8147+H9028) for "the two corners" (li-shnei ha-miqtzo'ot). The construct chains here (shnei... shnei...) tightly bind the numeral "two" to its object, marking precise repetition of the technique at both corner positions.

Differences between versions

The Hebrew text of this verse describes construction of frame boards (with terms like "twins," "corners," "top"). The LXX text provided for this verse instead describes the λόγιον ("oracle/breastplate") and ἐπωμίδος ("ephod"), referencing rings, hyacinth-blue cord, and a woven garment — content unrelated to boards or corners in the Hebrew. The Vulgate, by contrast, follows the Hebrew's structural description ("joined from bottom to top... in one clasp... on both sides at the corners"), matching the Hebrew's subject matter of board construction rather than garment-making.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.