complete verse (Exodus 36:29)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 36:29:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those corner frames were fixed together on the lower/bottom side and were squeezed/tightened with one ring on the upper/top side. Both were made like that.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Both of these were doubled from top to bottom. These were joined from top to bottom at the corners of the plank. They made these planks alike for the both corners.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “These corner frames were-attached/joined firmly from the bottom to the top. They made the same to the two frames of the corners.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “At the two corners of the shelter’s back, he attached those wall bones with ring-handles and hooks, from its base and going upward. He attached the two corners of the shelter’s back like that.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Tree those two they nail-together on corner , they not it bind under, they jar be it approximately crossbeam of middle with its head. They did it thus on both.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “The two corner frames were joined from the bottom to the top (OR, joined at both the bottom and the top). At the top of each of the two corner frames they fastened a gold ring for holding the crossbar.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Translation commentary on Exod 36:28 - 36:29

Verses 28-29 are almost identical with 26.23-24. In verse 28 the verb he made replaces “you shall make” in 26.23, and in verse 29 the same verb replaces “shall it be” in 26.24. In both cases he made should be changed to “they made.” (See verse 8 above.) A few other differences should make no difference in the translation.

The two words, separate and joined, present a textual problem that is identical with the problem in 26.24. (See the comment there.) Hebrew Old Testament Text Project gives the same interpretation and rating in both places.

Quoted with permission from Osborn, Noel D. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Exodus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1999. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .