Text -- Exodus 37:1-8 (NET)

The Making of the Ark

37:1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches. 37:2 He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it. 37:3 He cast four gold rings for it that he put on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. 37:4 He made poles of acacia wood, overlaid them with gold, 37:5 and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark. 37:6 He made an atonement lid of pure gold; its length was three feet nine inches, and its width was two feet three inches. 37:7 He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid, 37:8 one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end. He made the cherubim from the atonement lid on its two ends.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 37:2

¹ tn Or “molding.”

NET Notes: Exo 37:3

¹ tn “that he put” has been supplied.

² tn This is taken as a circumstantial clause; the clause begins with the conjunction vav.

NET Notes: Exo 37:6

¹ tn Heb “and he made.”

NET Notes: Exo 37:8

¹ tn Heb “from/at [the] end, from this.”

² tn The repetition of the expression indicates it has the distributive sense.