Exodus 36 — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Each verse is rendered independently from the Hebrew (Rabbinic reading tradition) and from the Greek (Saints reading tradition). The badge classifies the relationship between the two readings; the note beneath records the source document’s comparison and attributed interpretation. Each column retains its own verse references where numbering differs.
The Mobilization of Workers
36:1 Different
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:1 “Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person in whom YHWH has put wisdom and understanding to know how to carry out all the work for the service of the sanctuary shall work according to all that YHWH has commanded.”
Greek · Saints priority
G 36:1 Bezalel, Eliab, and every person wise in understanding, to whom had been given wisdom and knowledge to understand how to do all the work for the holy service, worked according to all that the Lord had commanded.
H continues the instruction; G narrates its execution. The name forms remain distinct.
36:2 Different
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:2 Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person in whose heart YHWH had put wisdom, everyone whose heart stirred him to come and do the work.
Greek · Saints priority
G 36:2 Moses called Bezalel, Eliab, and all who possessed wisdom, to whom God had given knowledge in their hearts, and all who willingly came forward to the work to complete it.
G says God and knowledge; H says YHWH and wisdom.
36:3 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:3 They received from Moses all the contribution the children of Israel had brought for the work of the sanctuary’s service, to carry it out. The people continued bringing him freewill offerings morning after morning.
Greek · Saints priority
G 36:3 They received from Moses all the contributions the children of Israel had brought for all the work of the sanctuary, to carry it out. They continued receiving gifts from those who brought them, morning after morning.
G here uses contributions, not the firstfruits term used in other offering passages.
The Restraint of Abundant Offerings
36:4 Same
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:4 All the skilled workers who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from the work he was doing,
Greek · Saints priority
G 36:4 All the skilled workers who were doing the work of the sanctuary came, each according to the work he was doing,
36:5 Same
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:5 and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than enough for the service of the work YHWH commanded to be done.”
Greek · Saints priority
G 36:5 and they said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than is needed for the work the Lord commanded to be done.”
RH has plural they said and states that the people brought more than the work required, corresponding to Hebrew.
36:6 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:6 Moses gave a command, and a proclamation went through the camp: “Let neither man nor woman make anything more for the sanctuary contribution.” So the people were restrained from bringing more.
Greek · Saints priority
G 36:6 Moses gave a command and proclaimed in the camp, “Let neither man nor woman work any longer for the firstfruits of the sanctuary.” The people were restrained from bringing any more.
The offering terminology differs; both stop further contributions.
36:7 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:7 The material they had was sufficient to do all the work, with some left over.
Greek · Saints priority
G 36:7 The work supplied was sufficient for the construction, with some left over.
The context supports material or completed work supplied, not a modern monetary valuation.
Fabricating the Inner and Outer Curtains
36:8 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:8 All the skilled workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. He made them with cherubim, the work of a skilled designer.
Greek · Saints priority
G 37:1 They made ten curtains for the tent.
G’s corresponding curtain account is much shorter and appears in chapter thirty-seven; it does not repeat the materials or cherubim here. G chapter thirty-six instead turns to priestly garments, aligned below with H chapter thirty-nine.
36:9 Same
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:9 Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide. All the curtains had the same measurements.
Greek · Saints priority
G 37:2 Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long; all were alike. Each curtain was four cubits wide.
36:10 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:10 He joined five curtains to one another, and joined the other five curtains to one another.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:10 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
The detailed joining account in H is not repeated in the consulted G execution narrative.
36:11 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:11 He made blue loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and did the same along the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:11 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:12 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:12 He made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain in the second set, with the loops opposite one another.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:12 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:13 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one.
Greek · Saints priority
G 38:19 He also made the rings of the tent of gold, and the rings of the court and the rings for stretching the covering overhead of bronze.
This later G metalwork summary is the closest counterpart. It gives no count of fifty and includes additional bronze fittings. Its placement here is editorial alignment, not the Greek narrative order.
36:14 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:14 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
The longer tent-covering instructions remain in chapter twenty-six; their execution is not repeated in full here in G.
36:15 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:15 Each curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide. The eleven curtains had the same measurements.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:15 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:16 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:16 He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:16 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:17 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:17 He made fifty loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain in the second set.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:17 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:18 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as one.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:18 alignment — No separate count of these clasps in G. —
The broader bronze-fitting summary is translated at H thirty-six, verse thirteen.
36:19 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:19 He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of tachash skins above it.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:19 alignment — No separate making-of-the-skins clause here in G. —
G later lists the red ram skins and blue coverings among the delivered equipment; see the alignment at H thirty-nine, verse thirty-four.
Boards, Bars, Veil, and Entrance Screen (Verses 20–38)
36:20 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:20 He made upright boards of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:20 alignment — No corresponding detailed board-construction account in G. —
G’s later metalwork summary mentions pillars and bars; see the alignment at verse thirty-four. The following H specifications are not to be imported into G.
36:21 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:21 Each board was ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:21 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:22 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:22 Each board had two tenons joined to one another. He made all the tabernacle’s boards this way.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:22 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:23 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:23 He made twenty boards for the south side of the tabernacle.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:23 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:24 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:24 He made forty silver bases under the twenty boards: two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under the next board for its two tenons.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:24 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:25 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north, he made twenty boards,
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:25 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:26 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:26 with their forty silver bases: two bases under one board and two bases under the next board.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:26 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:27 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:27 For the rear of the tabernacle, toward the west, he made six boards.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:27 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:28 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:28 He made two boards for the corners at the rear of the tabernacle.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:28 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:29 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:29 They were paired at the bottom and joined together at the top into one ring. He did this for both of them at the two corners.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:29 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
The precise H corner construction is difficult; the rendering remains provisional.
36:30 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:30 There were eight boards with sixteen silver bases, two bases under each board.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:30 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:31 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:31 He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle,
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:31 alignment — No corresponding bar count in this G account. —
Verses thirty-one through thirty-eight were missing from V1 and are restored here from H.
36:32 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:32 five bars for the boards on the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards at the rear of the tabernacle, toward the west.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:32 alignment — No corresponding bar count in this G account. —
36:33 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:33 He made the middle bar pass through the midst of the boards from one end to the other.
Greek · Saints priority
H 36:33 alignment — No corresponding construction detail in this G account. —
36:34 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:34 He overlaid the boards with gold, made their gold rings as holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
Greek · Saints priority
G 38:18 He overlaid the pillars with silver, cast gold rings for the pillar, and overlaid the bars with gold. He overlaid the pillars of the veil with gold and made gold hooks.
G’s later summary specifies silvered pillars, then gilded veil pillars, and uses a singular pillar in the ring clause. This different grouping is preserved rather than made identical to H’s boards.
36:35 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:35 He made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen. He made it with cherubim, the work of a skilled designer.
Greek · Saints priority
G 37:3 They made the veil of blue, purple, spun scarlet, and spun fine linen, with woven cherubim.
RH has plural they made, while Hebrew 36:35 has singular he made. The materials and cherubim correspond.
36:36 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:36 He made four acacia pillars for it and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks; he cast four silver bases for them.
Greek · Saints priority
G 37:4; 38:20 They placed it on four pillars of decay-resistant wood overlaid with gold. Their capitals were gold, and their four bases were silver. He cast the silver capitals of the tent and the bronze capitals of the tent doorway and the gate of the court. He made silver hooks for the pillars; he silvered them.
The first G sentence corresponds closely to the veil supports. The later metalwork summary is included with its own reference; it says capitals, not bases, and introduces court fittings. These terms require critical-text review.
36:37 Different
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:37 He made an entrance screen for the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer.
Greek · Saints priority
G 37:5 They made the entrance veil of the Tent of Testimony of blue, purple, spun scarlet, and spun fine linen, with woven cherubim.
G explicitly includes cherubim on the entrance veil here; H describes embroidery without naming cherubim.
36:38 Different
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
36:38 He made its five pillars and their hooks, overlaid their capitals and bands with gold, and made their five bases of bronze.
Greek · Saints priority
G 37:6 They made its five pillars and their rings, overlaid their capitals and their bands with gold, and made their five bases of bronze.
Greek specifies rings where Hebrew has hooks. RH also explicitly names the gilded bands or curved fittings.
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