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Exodus 28:5

And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

KJV

Accipientque aurum, et hyacinthum, et purpuram, coccumque bis tinctum, et byssum.

Vulgate

καὶ αὐτοὶ λήμψονται τὸ χρυσίον καὶ τὸν ὑάκινθον καὶ τὴν πορφύραν καὶ τὸ κόκκινον καὶ τὴν βύσσον.

LXX

And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

ASV

וְ/הֵם֙ יִקְח֣וּ אֶת הַ/זָּהָ֔ב וְ/אֶת הַ/תְּכֵ֖לֶת וְ/אֶת הָֽ/אַרְגָּמָ֑ן וְ/אֶת תּוֹלַ֥עַת הַ/שָּׁנִ֖י וְ/אֶת הַ/שֵּֽׁשׁ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אַרְגָּמָ֛ן
'rgmn
noun · 38×
הֵ֖מָּה
hmh
pronoun · 560×
זָהָ֖ב
zhb
noun · 388×
יִּקַּ֣ח
yqch
verb · 963×
שֵׁ֣שׁ
shsh
noun · 42×
שָׁנִ֖י
shny
noun · 42×
תְּכֵ֧לֶת
tklt
noun · 49×
תוֹלַ֥עַת
tvl't
noun · 43×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Folly of the arguments derived by the heretics from numbers, letters, and syllables. 1. This very thing, too, still further demonstrates their opinion false, and their fictitious system untenable, that they endeavour to bring forward proofs of it, sometimes through means of numbers and the syllables of names, sometimes also through the letter of syllables, and yet again through…

Cross-references

  • Exod 35:6 — And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
  • Ezek 16:10 — I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.