Exodus 40:18

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.”

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BSBPD

“When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up its pillars.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and Moses raiseth up the tabernacle, and setteth its sockets, and placeth its boards, and placeth its bars, and raiseth its pillars,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 40:18 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 26:15You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
  2. Exodus 36:20Next, he constructed upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
  3. Exodus 40:2“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
  4. Leviticus 26:11And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
  5. Isaiah 33:24And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.
  6. Ezekiel 37:27My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  7. Matthew 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
  8. John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
  9. Galatians 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
  10. 1 Timothy 3:15in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
  11. 1 Peter 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
  12. Revelation 21:3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

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