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New Living Translation

Exodus 35:25

All the women who were skilled in sewing and spinning prepared blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine linen cloth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Art;   Colors;   Liberality;   Spinning;   Tabernacle;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Arts and Crafts;   Labour;   Liberality;   Manual Labour;   Ostentation;   Spinners;   Virtues;   Woman's;   Womanhood, Crowning Qualities of;   Women;   Work, Women's;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arts of the;   Liberality;   Tabernacle;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Garments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Craft workers;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Wisdom;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Linen;   Purple;   Tabernacle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Cloth, Clothing;   Exodus, Book of;   Free Will Offering;   Spinning and Weaving;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Arts and Crafts;   Colours;   Leviticus;   Spinning and Weaving;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Garments;   Handicraft;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Spinning;   Tabernacle;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Tabernacle, the;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crafts;   Linen;   Spinning;   Wisdom;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Beryl;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
King James Version
And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
Lexham English Bible
And every woman who was skilled of heart with her hands they spun, and they brought yarn—the blue and the purple, the crimson and the fine linen.
New Century Version
Every skilled woman used her hands to make the blue, purple, and red thread, and fine linen, and they brought what they had made.
New English Translation
Every woman who was skilled spun with her hands and brought what she had spun, blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen,
Amplified Bible
All the skilled and talented women spun thread with their hands, and brought what they had spun, blue and purple and scarlet fabric and fine linen.
New American Standard Bible
And all the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in violet, purple, and scarlet material, and in fine linen.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the women that were wise hearted, did spin with their hands, and brought ye spun worke, euen the blewe silke, and the purple, the skarlet, and the fine linen.
Legacy Standard Bible
All the women wise at heart spun with their hands and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.
Contemporary English Version
The women who were good at weaving cloth brought the blue, purple, and red wool and the fine linen they had made.
Complete Jewish Bible
All the women who were skilled at spinning got to work and brought what they had spun, the blue, purple and scarlet yarn and the fine linen.
Darby Translation
And every woman that was wise-hearted spun with her hands, and brought what she had spun: the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the byssus.
Easy-to-Read Version
Every skilled woman made fine linen and blue, purple, and red yarn.
English Standard Version
And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.
George Lamsa Translation
And all the women who were skillful did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet material, and of fine linen.
Good News Translation
All the skilled women brought fine linen thread and thread of blue, purple, and red wool, which they had made.
Christian Standard Bible®
Every skilled woman spun yarn with her hands and brought it: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
Literal Translation
And every wise-hearted woman spun with her hands; and they brought spun yarn, blue, and purple, and crimson and bleached linen .
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And soch wemen as were wyse herted, spanne with their hades, and brought their sponne worke of yalow sylke, scarlet, purple, and whyte sylke.
American Standard Version
And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
Bible in Basic English
And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the women that were wyse hearted, dyd spinne with their handes, and brought the spun worke, both of blewe silke, purple, scarlet, & white silke.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
King James Version (1611)
And all the women that were wise hearted, did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blew, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linnen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And every woman skilled in her heart to spin with her hands, brought spun articles, the blue, and purple, and scarlet and fine linen.
English Revised Version
And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
Berean Standard Bible
Every skilled woman spun with her hands and brought what she had spun: blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also wymmen tauyt yauen tho thingis, whiche thei hadden spunne, iacynt, purpur, and vermyloun,
Young's Literal Translation
And every wise-hearted woman hath spun with her hands, and they bring in yarn, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the linen;
Update Bible Version
And all the women that were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the women that were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, [both] of blue, and of purple, [and] of scarlet, and of fine linen.
World English Bible
All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
New King James Version
All the women who were gifted artisans spun yarn with their hands, and brought what they had spun, of blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
New Life Bible
All the able women made cloth with their hands. They brought the blue, purple and red cloth and fine linen they had made.
New Revised Standard
All the skillful women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and crimson yarns and fine linen;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, all the women who were wise-hearted, with their hands, did spin, - and brought in that which they had spun - the blue, and the purple, the crimson, and the fine linen.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The skilful women also gave such things as they had spun, violet, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,
Revised Standard Version
And all women who had ability spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.

Contextual Overview

20 So the whole community of Israel left Moses and returned to their tents. 21 All whose hearts were stirred and whose spirits were moved came and brought their sacred offerings to the Lord . They brought all the materials needed for the Tabernacle, for the performance of its rituals, and for the sacred garments. 22 Both men and women came, all whose hearts were willing. They brought to the Lord their offerings of gold—brooches, earrings, rings from their fingers, and necklaces. They presented gold objects of every kind as a special offering to the Lord . 23 All those who owned the following items willingly brought them: blue, purple, and scarlet thread; fine linen and goat hair for cloth; and tanned ram skins and fine goatskin leather. 24 And all who had silver and bronze objects gave them as a sacred offering to the Lord . And those who had acacia wood brought it for use in the project. 25 All the women who were skilled in sewing and spinning prepared blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine linen cloth. 26 All the women who were willing used their skills to spin the goat hair into yarn. 27 The leaders brought onyx stones and the special gemstones to be set in the ephod and the priest's chestpiece. 28 They also brought spices and olive oil for the light, the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense. 29 So the people of Israel—every man and woman who was eager to help in the work the Lord had given them through Moses—brought their gifts and gave them freely to the Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 28:3, Exodus 31:6, Exodus 36:1, 2 Kings 23:7, Proverbs 14:1, Proverbs 31:19-24, Luke 8:2, Luke 8:3, Acts 9:39, Romans 16:1-4, Romans 16:6, Romans 16:12, Galatians 3:28, Philippians 4:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 26:31 - blue Exodus 36:2 - one whose Exodus 40:5 - the altar 1 Chronicles 28:21 - willing Nehemiah 3:12 - he and his daughters

Cross-References

Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all their pagan idols and earrings, and he buried them under the great tree near Shechem.
Genesis 35:8
Soon after this, Rebekah's old nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried beneath the oak tree in the valley below Bethel. Ever since, the tree has been called Allon-bacuth (which means "oak of weeping").
Genesis 35:23
The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob's oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 35:25
The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 37:2
This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father's flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father's wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the women that were wise hearted,.... That were ingenious, and had a good hand at spinning particularly, these were of the common and lower sort; the more honourable and richer sort of women are before mentioned, as bringing jewels or ornaments of gold of different sorts: but these were such who

did spin [with] their hands; in which way they got their living: some were more dexterous at it than others:

and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen; that is, yarn of these several colours, and flaxen thread, of which fine linen was made, all ready for the weaver, whether in woollen or linen.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 35:25. All the women that were wise-hearted did spin — They had before learned this art, they were wise-hearted; and now they practise it, and God condescends to require and accept their services. In building this house of God, all were ambitious to do something by which they might testify their piety to God, and their love for his worship. The spinning practised at this time was simple, and required little apparatus. It was the plain distaff or twirling pin, which might be easily made out of any wood they met with in the wilderness.


 
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