Exodus 27:10

27:10 with ¹  twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

Exodus 36:38

36:38 and its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid their tops ²  and their bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze. ³ 

Exodus 38:10

38:10 with ⁴  their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

Exodus 38:19

38:19 with four posts and their four bronze bases. Their hooks and their bands were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver.

Exodus 27:11

27:11 Likewise ⁵  for its length on the north side, there are to be ⁶  hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands ⁷  on the posts.

Exodus 38:11-12

38:11 For the north side the hangings were ⁸  one hundred fifty feet, with their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 38:12 For the west side there were ⁹  hangings seventy-five feet long, with ¹⁰  their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

Exodus 38:17

38:17 The bases for the posts were bronze. The hooks of the posts and their bands were silver, their tops were overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the courtyard had silver bands. ¹¹ 

¹ tn Heb “and.”

² tn The word is “their heads”; technically it would be “their capitals” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV). The bands were bands of metal surrounding these capitals just beneath them. These are not mentioned in Exod 26:37, and it sounds like the posts are to be covered with gold. But the gradation of metals is what is intended: the posts at the entrance to the Most Holy Place are all of gold; the posts at the entrance to the tent are overlaid with gold at the top; and the posts at the entrance to the courtyard are overlaid with silver at the top (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 387, citing Dillmann without reference).

³ sn For a good summary of the differences between the instruction section and the completion section, and the reasons for the changes and the omissions, see B. Jacob, Exodus, 1022-23.

³ tn While this verse could be translated as an independent sentence, it is probably to be subordinated as a circumstantial clause in line with Exod 27:10-12, as well as v. 12 of this passage.

⁴ tn Heb “and thus.”

⁵ tn Here the phrase “there will be” has been supplied.

⁶ sn These bands have been thought by some to refer to connecting rods joining the tops of the posts. But it is more likely that they are bands or bind rings surrounding the posts at the base of the capitals (see 38:17).

⁵ tn Here the phrase “the hangings were” has been supplied.

⁶ tn The phrase “there were” has been supplied.

⁷ tn The text simply has “their posts ten and their bases ten”; this may be added here as a circumstantial clause with the main sentence in order to make sense out of the construction.

⁷ tn Heb “they were banded with silver.”