Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
- KJV And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
- NKJV And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.
- NASB And you shall make five pillars of acacia for the curtain and overlay them with gold, their hooks also of gold; and you shall cast five bases of bronze for them.
- NLT Craft five posts from acacia wood. Overlay them with gold, and hang the curtain from them with gold hooks. Cast five bronze bases for the posts.
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Quick answer
The entrance screen hung on five gold-overlaid acacia pillars with gold hooks, set on five bronze sockets. These supported the doorway curtain.
Overview
Five golden pillars on bronze bases held the entrance screen of the tabernacle. The bronze sockets here, rather than silver, distinguished the outer entrance from the holier inner veil. The graded materials marked increasing holiness as one moved inward, teaching that approach to God proceeds by His appointed degrees, fully opened in Christ.
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- Exod 36:38together with five posts and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and their five bases were bronze.
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