Focused Passage

Exodus 38:8

The Altar, Basin, Courtyard, and Inventory of Tabernacle Materials

The chapter moves from the construction of the bronze altar of burnt offering, to the making of its utensils, grating, rings, and poles, to the making of the bronze basin from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting, to the construction of the courtyard curtains, posts, bases, hooks, bands, and entrance curtain, and finally to the inventory of gold, silver, and bronze used in the tabernacle work under the supervision of Ithamar, Bezalel, and Oholiab.

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8 Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

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Verse 8

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Next he made וַיַּ֗עַשׂ H6213 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular - אֵ֚ת H853 Direct object marker the bronze נְחֹ֔שֶׁת H5178 Noun - feminine singular - וְאֵ֖ת H853 Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker basin הַכִּיּ֣וֹר H3595 Article | Noun - masculine singular and its stand כַּנּ֣וֹ H3653 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular . . . נְחֹ֑שֶׁת H5178 Noun - feminine singular from the mirrors בְּמַרְאֹת֙ H4759 Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct of the women who אֲשֶׁ֣ר H834 Pronoun - relative . . . צָֽבְא֔וּ H6633 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural served הַצֹּ֣בְאֹ֔ת H6633 Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural at the entrance פֶּ֖תַח H6607 Noun - masculine singular construct to the Tent אֹ֥הֶל H168 Noun - masculine singular construct of Meeting מוֹעֵֽד׃ס H4150 Noun - masculine singular

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