Exodus 25:11

“You shall overlay it with pure gold; inside and outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold all around.”

Exodus 25:11 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Exodus 25:11, word by word

You shall overlayצִפִּיתָtsipita

overlay

Overlay, cover with a sheet of metal.

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with pureטָהוֹרtahor

pure

Without a mixture of anything else, like gold with no alloy.

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goldזָהָבzahav

gold

Gold.

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insideבַּיִתbayit

inside

Literally "the house": the inner part of something.

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and outsideחוּץchuts

outside

What lies outside the house, the city or the camp.

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and you shall makeעָשִׂיתָasita

make

To build or create something.

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a moldingזֵרzer

molding

Molding: a decorative rim around a piece of furniture.

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all aroundסָבִיבsaviv

around

In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.

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The context

10They shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

11 · This verse (above)

12You shall cast for it four rings of gold and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.

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