Exodus 40:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he did.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּ֖עַשׂ מֹשֶׁ֑ה כְּ֠כֹל אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה אֹת֖וֹ כֵּ֥ן עָשָֽׂה׃ ס

Transliteration

And wayyaʿaś Mōšeh like-all which ṣiwwāh YHWH him thus ʿāśāh.

Grammar Details

• *wayyaʿaś*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he did/made
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Moses
• *ṣiwwāh*: piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he commanded
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *ʿāśāh*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he did/made

Word Meanings

• *wayyaʿaś*: and did/made/performed
• *ṣiwwāh*: commanded/ordered/instructed
• *ʿāśāh*: did/made/performed

Referenced Verses

• Exod 40:17-32 : 17 So on the first day of the first month in the second year the House was put up. 18 Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position and lifting up its uprights, putting in the rods and planting the pillars in their places; 19 Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders. 20 And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and the cover over it; 21 And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders. 22 And he put the table in the Tent of meeting, on the north side outside the veil. 23 And he put the bread on it in order before the Lord, as the Lord had said. 24 The support for the lights he put in the Tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side: 25 Lighting the lights before the Lord, as the Lord had given him orders. 26 And he put the gold altar in the Tent of meeting, in front of the veil: 27 Burning sweet perfumes on it, as the Lord had given him orders. 28 And he put up the curtain at the doorway of the House. 29 And at the door of the House of the Tent of meeting, he put the altar of burned offerings, offering on it the burned offering and the meal offering, as the Lord had given him orders. 30 And between the altar and the Tent of meeting he put the vessel with water in it for washing. 31 In it the hands and feet of Moses and Aaron and his sons were washed, 32 Whenever they went into the Tent of meeting, and when they came near the altar, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
• Deut 4:1 : 1 And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
• Deut 12:32 : 32 You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.
• Isa 8:20 : 20 Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...
• Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
• 1 Cor 4:2 : 2 And it is right for such servants to be safe persons.
• Exod 23:21-22 : 21 Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him. 22 But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.
• Exod 39:42-43 : 42 The children of Israel did everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 43 Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.