Exodus 26:8

8 The length of each curtain should be 45 feet^[a] and the width of each curtain six feet.^[b] All 11 curtains are to have the same measurements.

Exodus 26:8 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:8

The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the
breadth of one curtain four cubits
The breadth of them is the same with the linen curtains, but the length of them two cubits more; the reason of which was, that they might hang down lower on either side, and the better preserve them from any injury:

and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure;
as to length and breadth.

Exodus 26:8 In-Context

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

7 "You are to make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; make 11 of these curtains.

8 The length of each curtain should be 45 feet and the width of each curtain six feet. All 11 curtains are to have the same measurements.

9 Join five of the curtains by themselves, and the [other] six curtains by themselves. Then fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent.

10 Make 50 loops on the edge of the one curtain, the outermost in the [first] set, and make 50 loops on the edge of the [corresponding] curtain of the second set.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit 30 cubits
• [b]. Lit four cubits