Exodus 26:2
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All the curtains are to be the same size—twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.a
Read Exodus 26:2 Using Other Translations
The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall be the same size.
These ten curtains must all be exactly the same size—42 feet long and 6 feet wide.
What does Exodus 26:2 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Exodus 26:2
The length of one curtain shall be twenty eight
cubits
Or fourteen yards:
and the breadth of one curtain four cubits;
or two yards; according to the common notion of a cubit being
half a yard; but if, as Dr. Cumberland says, the Jewish and
Egyptian cubit was three inches longer, this will make a
considerable difference in the length and breadth of those
curtains, especially in the former:
and everyone of the curtains shall have one
measure;
be of equal length and breadth.
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