Exodus 25:11
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And you shall overlay it with pure gold, within and without shall you overlay it, and shall make on it a crown of gold round about.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And you shall overlay it with pure gold, within and without shall you overlay it, and shall make on it a crown of gold round about.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it
Webster's Revision
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold around it.
World English Bible
You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
Definitions for Exodus 25:11
Clarke's Exodus 25:11 Bible Commentary
A crown of gold round about - A border, or, as the Septuagint have it, κυματια χρυσα στεπτα κυκλω, waves of gold wreathed round about.
Barnes's Exodus 25:11 Bible Commentary
Overlay it with pure gold - Words descriptive of the common process of gilding. The Egyptians in early times were acquainted with both the art of gilding and that of covering a substance with thin plates of gold.
A crown of gold - That is, an edging or moulding of gold round the top of the ark, within which the cover or mercy-seat Exodus 25:17 may have fitted (compare Exodus 38:2). There were golden mouldings, called by the same name, to the table of showbread Exodus 25:24; Exodus 37:11-12, and to the golden altar Exodus 30:3; Exodus 37:26.
