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Exodus 37:9-11
New English Translation
Exodus 37:9-11
New English Translation
9 The cherubim were spreading their wings[a] upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings. The cherubim[b] faced each other,[c] looking toward the atonement lid.[d]
The Making of the Table
10 Bezalel[e] made the table of acacia wood; its length was 36 inches, its width 18 inches, and its height 27 inches. 11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.
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- Exodus 37:9 tn The construction is a participle in construct followed by the genitive “wings”—“spreaders of wings.”
- Exodus 37:9 tn The subject, “the cherubim,” has been added again in the translation for smoothness.
- Exodus 37:9 tn Heb “and their faces a man to his brother.”
- Exodus 37:9 tn Heb “to the atonement lid were the faces of the cherubim.”
- Exodus 37:10 tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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