Exodus 25:12
And four golden rings, which thou shall put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et quatuor circulos aureos, quos pones per quatuor arcæ angulos : duo circuli sint in latere uno, et duo in altero.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Exodus 25:11
- καὶ ἐλάσεις αὐτῇ τέσσαρες δακτυλίους χρυσοῦς καὶ ἐπιθήσεις ἐπὶ τὰ τέσσερα κλίτη· δύο δακτυλίους ἐπὶ τὸ κλίτος τὸ ἕν, καὶ δύο δακτυλίους ἐπὶ τὸ κλίτος τὸ δεύτερον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְיָצַ֣קְתָּ לּ֗וֹ אַרְבַּע֙ טַבְּעֹ֣ת זָהָ֔ב וְנָ֣תַתָּ֔ה עַ֖ל אַרְבַּ֣ע פַּעֲמֹתָ֑יו וּשְׁתֵּ֣י טַבָּעֹ֗ת עַל צַלְעוֹ֙ הָֽאֶחָ֔ת וּשְׁתֵּי֙ טַבָּעֹ֔ת עַל צַלְע֖וֹ הַשֵּׁנִֽית
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How intent the ruler ought to be on meditations in the Sacred Law
But all this is duly executed by a ruler, if, inspired by the spirit of heavenly fear and love, he meditate daily on the precepts of Sacred Writ, that the words of Divine admonition may restore in him the power of solicitude and of provident circumspection with regard to the celestial life, which familiar intercourse with men continually destroys; and that one who is drawn to oldness of life by secular society may by the aspiration of compunction be ever renewed to love of the spiritual country. For the heart runs greatly to waste in the midst of human talk; and, since it is undoubtedly evident that, when driven by the tumults of external occupations, it loses its balance and falls, one ought incessantly to take care that through keen pursuit of instruction it may rise again. …