Exodus 26:6

6 And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps; and it shall be one tabernacle.

Exodus 26:6 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:6

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold
Which some render "buttons" ^F9, others "hooks" ^F11 they seem to be "clasps"; the use of them follows: and couple the curtains together with the taches;
the two great curtains were made out of the ten, which had in them fifty

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (yorq) "fibulas", Tigurine version, Vatablus
F11 "Uncinos", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius; so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan.

Exodus 26:6 In-Context

4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvage in the coupling, and likewise shalt thou do on the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make on the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second, that the loops may take hold one to another.

6 And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps; and it shall be one tabernacle.

7 "And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle; eleven curtains shalt thou make.

8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; and the eleven curtains shall be all the same measure.