Exodus 39:28
וְאֵת הַמִּצְנֶפֶת שֵׁשׁ וְאֶת־פַּאֲרֵי הַמִּגְבָּעֹת שֵׁשׁ וְאֶת־מִכְנְסֵי הַבָּד שֵׁשׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃
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וְאֵת֙ הַמִּצְנֶ֣פֶת שֵׁ֔שׁ וְאֶת־פַּאֲרֵ֥י הַמִּגְבָּעֹ֖ת שֵׁ֑שׁ וְאֶת־מִכְנְסֵ֥י הַבָּ֖ד שֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃
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Latin (Vulgate)
cingulum vero de bysso retorta, hyacintho, purpura, ac vermiculo bis tincto, arte plumaria, sicut præceperat Dominus Moysi.
El turbante y los hermosos gorros también los hicieron de lino fino, al igual que la ropa interior de lino torcido.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Asimismo la mitra de lino fino, y los adornos de los chapeos ( tiaras) de lino fino, y los pañetes de lino, de lino torcido;
as well as the turban of fine linen, the ornate headbands and undergarments of finely spun linen,
✦ What the text says
Summary
Exodus 39:28 lists three linen garments made for the priestly vestments: the turban, the ornamental headbands of the caps, and the linen undergarments. All three items are specified as made of fine, twisted linen, emphasizing the material's quality and craftsmanship.
Key words
- mitz.Ne.fet ("turban", H4701) — feminine singular noun naming the priestly headpiece.
- pa.'a.Rei ("head-wrap of", H6287) — masculine plural construct form, meaning it must be followed by another noun ("head-wrap of the headdresses"), indicating decorative wrappings attached to caps.
- mig.ba.'Ot ("headdresses", H4021) — feminine plural noun, the caps to which the ornamental wraps belong.
- mikh.ne.Sei ("undergarments of", H4370) — masculine plural construct, linking to Bad ("linen", H0906) to specify the material.
- ma.she.Zar ("twisted", H7806) — hophal passive participle, masculine singular, describing the linen as having been processed by twisting (a causative-passive verb form indicating the action was done to the material).
What the text says
The verse is built as a chain of three objects, each introduced by the direct object marker 'Et (H0853) and joined by the conjunction ve ("and", H9002). This repetitive syntactic pattern —conjunction + object marker + noun— creates a list structure typical of construction/inventory reports in this chapter. Each garment is paired with the term Shesh ("fine linen", H8336B), which appears three times (words 5, 11, 17), reinforcing the material consistency across all three items.
The construct chains are notable: pa.'a.Rei ha.mig.ba.'Ot ("head-wrap of the headdresses") and mikh.ne.Sei ha.Bad ("undergarments of the linen") both use plural construct nouns governing a following absolute noun, a common Hebrew way to express "X of Y" without a separate preposition. The final word, ma.she.Zar ("twisted", H7806), is a hophal participle — a passive form derived from a causative stem — describing the linen not merely as "twisted" in a simple passive sense but as having undergone a specific twisting process applied to it.
Differences between versions
The Vulgate text provided (VULCLEM) does not correspond to the Hebrew content of this verse; it describes a belt (cingulum) with multicolored, embroidered work (hyacinth, purple, scarlet), which in the Hebrew textual tradition appears in the following verse (Exodus 39:29) rather than 39:28. The Hebrew, BSB, RV1909, and SBLIBRE all align in listing turban, headband ornaments, and linen undergarments here, without color terms — the divergence is isolated to the Vulgate's verse alignment in the data given.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.