Êxodo 25:12

12 e fundirás para ela quatro argolas de ouro, que porás nos quatro cantos dela; duas argolas de um lado e duas do outro.

Êxodo 25:12 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 25:12

And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it
For which a mould was to be made, and the gold being melted was poured into it, and so the rings were fashioned:

and put them in the corners thereof;
or, "in its feet", as Aben Ezra, though Jarchi says it had no feet; but as the word used so signifies always, it is more probable it had feet; and the rather, that it might not stand upon the ground, but on feet, as chests and coffers usually do:

and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the
other side of it;
Jarchi says, at the upper corners, near the mercy seat were they placed, two on one side and two on the other, at the breadth of the ark; but it is more likely they were fixed in the lower part of it, as Ramban, at the feet of it; and in the length of the ark, as Josephus writes ^F13.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 5

Êxodo 25:12 In-Context

10 Também farão uma arca de madeira ,de acácia; o seu comprimento será de dois côvados e meio, e a sua largura de um côvado e meio, e de um côvado e meio a sua altura.

11 E cobri-la-ás de ouro puro, por dentro e por fora a cobrirás; e farás sobre ela uma moldura de ouro ao redor;

12 e fundirás para ela quatro argolas de ouro, que porás nos quatro cantos dela; duas argolas de um lado e duas do outro.

13 Também farás varais de madeira de acácia, que cobrirás de ouro.

14 Meterás os varais nas argolas, aos lados da arca, para se levar por eles a arca.