Exodus 25:11

25:11 You are to overlay ¹  it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, ²  and you are to make a surrounding border ³  of gold over it.

Exodus 25:24-25

25:24 You are to overlay it with ⁴  pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it. 25:25 You are to make a surrounding frame ⁵  for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

Exodus 30:33

30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest ⁶  will be cut off ⁷  from his people.’”

Exodus 37:2

37:2 He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border ⁸  of gold for it.

Exodus 37:11-12

37:11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it. 37:12 He made a surrounding frame for it about three inches wide, and he made a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

Exodus 30:3

30:3 You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top, ⁹  its four walls, ¹⁰  and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it. ¹¹ 

Exodus 37:26

37:26 He overlaid it with pure gold – its top, ¹²  its four walls, ¹³  and its horns – and he made a surrounding border of gold for it. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn The verbs throughout here are perfect tenses with the vav (ו) consecutives. They are equal to the imperfect tense of instruction and/or injunction.

² tn Here the verb is an imperfect tense; for the perfect sequence to work the verb would have to be at the front of the clause.

³ tn The word זֵר (zer) is used only in Exodus and seems to describe something on the order of a crown molding, an ornamental border running at the top of the chest on all four sides. There is no indication of its appearance or function.

⁴ tn “Gold” is an adverbial accusative of material.

⁷ sn There is some debate as to the meaning of מִסְגֶּרֶת (misgeret). This does not seem to be a natural part of the table and its legs. The drawing on the Arch of Titus shows two cross-stays in the space between the legs, about halfway up. It might have been nearer the top, but the drawing of the table of presence-bread from the arch shows it half-way up. This frame was then decorated with the molding as well.

¹⁰ tn Heb “a stranger,” meaning someone not ordained a priest.

¹¹ sn The rabbinic interpretation of this is that it is a penalty imposed by heaven, that the life will be cut short and the person could die childless.

¹³ tn Or “molding.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “roof.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “its walls around.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and make for it border gold around.” The verb is a consecutive perfect. See Exod 25:11, where the ark also has such a molding.

¹⁹ tn Heb “roof.”

²⁰ tn Heb “its walls around.”

²¹ tn Heb “and he made for it border gold around.”