Exodus 36:13-23

13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one.

14 And he made curtains of goats' [hair] for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them.

15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain -- one measure for the eleven curtains.

16 And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves.

17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he on the edge of the curtain in the other coupling.

18 And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one.

19 And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above [that].

20 And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up;

21 ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board;

22 two tenons in one board, connected one with the other: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

23 And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward;

Exodus 36:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 36

Bezaleel and Aholiab, with the artificers under them, having a call as well as qualifications for the service of the sanctuary, and having received from Moses the materials for it, set about it, Ex 36:1-3 but the people bringing more than was necessary, they acquaint Moses with it, who by a proclamation restrained from it, Ex 36:4-7 and next an account is given of the several things that were wrought by them, as first the curtains for the tabernacle, both of linen and goats' hair, and the coverings of them, Ex 36:8-19 next the boards for the tabernacle, and the sockets they were set in, and the bars for the boards, Ex 36:20-34 and then the vail which parted the most holy place from the holy place, and the hanging which divided between the holy place and the court, Ex 36:35-38.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or 'answering one to the other.'