Exodus 25:24
And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold: and thou shalt make to it a golden ledge round about.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et inaurabis eam auro purissimo : faciesque illi labium aureum per circuitum,
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Exodus 25:23
- καὶ ποιήσεις αὐτῇ στρεπτὰ κυμάτια χρυσᾶ κύκλῳ· καὶ ποιήσεις αὐτῂ στεφάνην παλαιστοῦ κύκλῳ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְצִפִּיתָ֥ אֹת֖וֹ זָהָ֣ב טָה֑וֹר וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ לּ֛וֹ זֵ֥ר זָהָ֖ב סָבִֽיב
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XI. The Mystical Meanings in the Proportions of Numbers, Geometrical Ratios, and Music
They add, then, the twelve cubits, agreeably to the revolution of the twelve months, in the annual circle, during which the earth produces and matures all things; adapting itself to the four seasons. And the table, in my opinion, exhibits the image of the earth, supported as it is on four feet, summer, autumn, spring, winter, by which the year travels. Wherefore also it is said that the table has “wavy chains;” either because the universe revolves in the circuits of the times, or perhaps it indicated the earth surrounded with ocean’s tide.