Exodus 38:28
New International Version
They used the 1,775 shekels to make the hooks for the posts, to overlay the tops of the posts, and to make their bands.

New Living Translation
The remaining 45 pounds of silver was used to make the hooks and rings and to overlay the tops of the posts.

English Standard Version
And of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them.

Berean Standard Bible
With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.

King James Bible
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.

New King James Version
Then from the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made bands for them.

New American Standard Bible
And of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their tops and made bands for them.

NASB 1995
Of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their tops and made bands for them.

NASB 1977
And of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their tops and made bands for them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their tops and made bands for them.

Amplified Bible
Of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the support poles and overlaid their tops and made connecting rings for them.

Christian Standard Bible
With the remaining 44 pounds he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
With the remaining 44 pounds he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.

American Standard Version
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

Contemporary English Version
The remaining 30 kilograms of silver were used for the hooks and rods and for covering the tops of the posts.

English Revised Version
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and made fillets for them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He used 44 pounds of silver to make the hooks and bands for the posts and the coverings for the tops of the posts.

Good News Translation
With the remaining 50 pounds of silver Bezalel made the rods, the hooks for the posts, and the covering for their tops.

International Standard Version
And with 1,775 talents he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their tops, and made bands for them.

Majority Standard Bible
With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.

NET Bible
From the remaining 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and made bands for them.

New Heart English Bible
Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and filleted them.

World English Bible
From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and [from] the one thousand and seven hundred and seventy-five [shekels] he has made pegs for the pillars, and overlaid their tops, and filleted them.

Young's Literal Translation
and the thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy he hath made pegs for the pillars, and overlaid their tops, and filleted them.

Smith's Literal Translation
And the thousand seven hundred and five and seventy, he made pegs for the pillars, and spread over their heads and joined them.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he made the heads of the pillars, which also he overlaid with silver.

Catholic Public Domain Version
But from one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, he made the heads of the columns, which he also clothed with silver.

New American Bible
The remaining one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels were used for making the hooks on the columns, for plating the capitals, and for banding them with silver.

New Revised Standard Version
Of the thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals and made bands for them.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and overlaid the hooks with silver.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And he made a thousand and seven hundred and seventy and five capitals for the pillars and the overlay of their tops and overlaid them in silver.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
a hundred chapiters to the hundred talents, a talent to a chapiter.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Cost of the Tabernacle
27The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base. 28 With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them. 29The bronze from the wave offering totaled 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.…

Cross References
Exodus 25:3-7
This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, and bronze; / blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair; / ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood; ...

Exodus 30:11-16
Then the LORD said to Moses, / “When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered. / Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD. ...

Exodus 35:5-9
Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze; / blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair; / ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood; ...

Exodus 36:3-7
They received from Moses all the contributions that the Israelites had brought to carry out the service of constructing the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning, / so that all the skilled craftsmen who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left their work / and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the LORD has commanded us to do.” ...

Exodus 39:32-43
So all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses. / Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and bases; / the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering; ...

Exodus 40:17-19
So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year. / When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts. / Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, just as the LORD had commanded him.

Numbers 1:1-3
On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said: / “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. / You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.

Numbers 3:47-51
you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs. / Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.” / So Moses collected the redemption money from those in excess of the number redeemed by the Levites. ...

Numbers 4:1-3
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, / “Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families, / men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 7:1-9
On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils. / And the leaders of Israel, the heads of their families, presented an offering. These men were the tribal leaders who had supervised the registration. / They brought as their offering before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen—an ox from each leader and a cart from every two leaders—and presented them before the tabernacle. ...

1 Chronicles 29:6-9
Then the leaders of the families, the officers of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officials in charge of the king’s work gave willingly. / Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron. / Whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite. ...

2 Chronicles 24:9-14
And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness. / All the officers and all the people rejoiced and brought their contributions, and they dropped them in the chest until it was full. / Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance. ...

Ezra 2:68-69
When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site. / According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly garments.

Nehemiah 7:70-72
Some of the heads of the families contributed to the project. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments. / And some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the project 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver. / The rest of the people gave a total of 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priestly garments.

Matthew 17:24-27
After they had arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your Teacher pay the two drachmas?” / “Yes,” he answered. When Peter entered the house, Jesus preempted him. “What do you think, Simon?” He asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs and taxes: from their own sons, or from others?” / “From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are exempt,” Jesus said to him. ...


Treasury of Scripture

And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and filleted them.

and filleted them

Exodus 27:17
All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

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Exodus 38
1. The altar of burnt offering
8. The laver of brass
9. The court, and its hangings
21. The sum of what the people offered, and the use to which it was applied














With the 1,775 shekels of silver
The use of "shekels" here refers to a standard unit of weight and currency in ancient Israel. The Hebrew word for shekel is "שֶׁקֶל" (shekel), which was approximately 11.4 grams. The specific number, 1,775, indicates a precise accounting and dedication to detail in the construction of the Tabernacle. This reflects the importance of stewardship and integrity in handling resources dedicated to God’s work. Historically, silver was a valuable commodity, often used in trade and religious offerings, symbolizing purity and redemption.

he made the hooks for the posts
The "hooks" mentioned are likely "וָוִים" (vavim) in Hebrew, which were used to hang the curtains of the Tabernacle. These hooks were essential for the structure and function of the Tabernacle, symbolizing the connection and support within the community of faith. The posts, or "עַמּוּדִים" (amudim), were the structural supports, representing stability and strength. This imagery can inspire believers to consider their role in supporting and upholding the community of faith, much like the hooks and posts supported the sacred space.

overlaid their tops
The act of overlaying the tops of the posts with silver signifies a covering or protection, enhancing the beauty and sanctity of the Tabernacle. The Hebrew word for "overlay" is "צָפָה" (tsaphah), which can also mean to cover or to watch over. This can be seen as a metaphor for God’s protective covering over His people, ensuring that they are adorned with His grace and glory. The use of silver for this purpose underscores the value and preciousness of God’s presence among His people.

and made their bands
The "bands" or "חֲשֻׁקִים" (chashuqim) in Hebrew, were likely used to bind or secure the structure, ensuring its unity and coherence. This can be seen as a symbol of the unity and cohesion required within the body of believers. Just as the bands held the Tabernacle together, so too should love and faith bind the community of believers. The meticulous attention to detail in crafting these elements reflects the care and devotion required in building a life of faith that honors God.

(28) Hooks for the pillars.--The pillars of the court had hooks of silver, to which the hangings were attached (Exodus 27:10; Exodus 27:17; Exodus 38:10-12).

Their chapiters.--Comp. Exodus 38:17; Exodus 38:19. . . .

Verse 28. - Hooks for the pillars. See above, vers. 10, 12, 17, and 19. Chapiters. See ver. 19. Filleted them. Rather, "connected them with rods"

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
With the 1,775 [shekels of silver],
הָאֶ֜לֶף (hā·’e·lep̄)
Article | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 505: A thousand

he made
עָשָׂ֥ה (‘ā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

the hooks
וָוִ֖ים (wā·wîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2053: A hook, pin, peg

for the posts,
לָעַמּוּדִ֑ים (lā·‘am·mū·ḏîm)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5982: A column, a stand, platform

overlaid
וְצִפָּ֥ה (wə·ṣip·pāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6823: To lay out, lay over

their tops,
רָאשֵׁיהֶ֖ם (rā·šê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 7218: The head

and supplied bands
וְחִשַּׁ֥ק (wə·ḥiš·šaq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2836: To cling, join, to love, delight in, elliptically, to deliver

for them.
אֹתָֽם׃ (’ō·ṯām)
Direct object marker | third person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case


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