Discovery BoxExodus 25:11 
Context25:11 You are to overlay 1 it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, 2 and you are to make a surrounding border 3 of gold over it.
Exodus 30:3
Context30:3 You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top, 4 its four walls, 5 and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it. 6
Exodus 37:26
Context37:26 He overlaid it with pure gold – its top, 7 its four walls, 8 and its horns – and he made a surrounding border of gold for it. 9
1 tn The verbs throughout here are perfect tenses with the vav (ו) consecutives. They are equal to the imperfect tense of instruction and/or injunction.
2 tn Here the verb is an imperfect tense; for the perfect sequence to work the verb would have to be at the front of the clause.
3 tn The word זֵר (zer) is used only in Exodus and seems to describe something on the order of a crown molding, an ornamental border running at the top of the chest on all four sides. There is no indication of its appearance or function.
4 tn Heb “roof.”
5 tn Heb “its walls around.”
6 tn Heb “and make for it border gold around.” The verb is a consecutive perfect. See Exod 25:11, where the ark also has such a molding.
7 tn Heb “roof.”
8 tn Heb “its walls around.”
9 tn Heb “and he made for it border gold around.”
