Exodus 26:1-6

The Tabernacle

1 "Moreover, ¹you shall make the ²tabernacle with ten curtains of ³fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim ⁴skillfully worked into them.

2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits,^[a] and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall be the same size.

3 Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

4 And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

5 Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another.

6 And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole.

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Exodus 26:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 26

In this chapter a description is given of the tabernacle itself, and first of its inward curtains, of their number, matter, length, and breadth, and the manner of coupling them together, Ex 26:1-6, and then of the outward curtains of it, their number, matter, length, and breadth, and coupling, and how disposed of, Ex 26:7-13, and next of the two coverings of the tabernacle, of rams' skins and badgers' skins, Ex 22:14, the boards for the tabernacle are also described, with their tenons and sockets, Ex 26:15-25 and the bars and rings for it, by which it was kept firm together, Ex 26:26-30, an account is given of the vail between the holy and the most holy place, Ex 26:31-35, and of the hanging for the door of the tabernacle, Ex 26:36,37.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 4

1. For ver. 1-37, see Exodus 36:8-38
2. Exodus 25:9
3. ver. 31, 36; Exodus 28:6, 15; Exodus 36:8, 35; Exodus 39:3, 8
4. ver. 31, 36; Exodus 28:6, 15; Exodus 36:8, 35; Exodus 39:3, 8

Footnotes 1

[a]. A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

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