Bible Strands
Exodus 38:31
the bases for the surrounding courtyard and its gate, and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and its surrounding courtyard.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses records the completion of the bronze fittings for Israel’s tabernacle courtyard, following the inventory of the altar and its utensils in the preceding verses.
The words — אַדְנֵי ('ad.Nei) denotes the bronze pedestals or bases that anchor the structure, while חָצֵר (cha.Tzer) specifies the enclosed courtyard area that frames the sanctuary.
The thread — This inventory of structural bases and boundary markers continues the detailed accounting of the tabernacle’s construction found throughout Exodus 27, 36, and 38.
Why it lands — The text demands attention to the precise material boundaries that separate the sacred from the common, grounding worship in tangible, measured reality.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.