Exodus 26:4

4 Make loops of blue yarn on the edge of the last curtain^[a] in the [first] set, and do the same on the edge of the outermost 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 The length of each curtain should be 42 feet, and the width of each curtain six feet; all the curtains are to have the same measurements.

3 Five of the curtains should be joined together, and the [other] five curtains joined together.

4 Make loops of blue yarn on the edge of the last curtain in the [first] set, and do the same on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

5 Make 50 loops on the one curtain and make 50 loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops line up together.

6 Also make 50 gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single unit.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit the one curtain on the end