Exodus 26:4

4 Make loops of blue thread on the edge of the outer curtain in the first set. Do the same on the edge of the outer curtain in the second set.

Exodus 26:4 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:4

And thou shall make loops of blue upon the edge of the one
curtain
The first large curtain, consisting of five sewed together, at the edge of that:

from the selvedge in the coupling;
where it was to be coupled with the other great curtain; "loops" or "eyelet holes" ^F8, were to be made: these were not wove with the curtains, for they were not to be upon all of them, only at the two outermost of the largest ones, and therefore were made afterwards, probably with the needle:

and likewise shall thou make in the uppermost edge of [another]
curtain, in the coupling of the second;
loops also were to be made on the outermost edge of another curtain belonging to the second great curtain, where it was to be coupled with the first.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (tall) "ocellos", Vatablus.

Exodus 26:4 In-Context

2 Each curtain should be forty-two feet long and each curtain six feet wide. All the curtains should be the same size.

3 Five curtains will be joined to each other as one set, while the other five curtains will be joined together as a second set.

4 Make loops of blue thread on the edge of the outer curtain in the first set. Do the same on the edge of the outer curtain in the second set.

5 Make fifty loops on the one curtain in the first set and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set. The loops should be opposite each other.

6 Then make fifty gold clasps. Join the curtains to each other with the clasps so that the dwelling becomes one whole structure.