Exodus 26:6

6 Make 50 gold fasteners. Use them to link the [two sets of] sheets together so that the tent is a single unit.

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


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 Make 50 violet loops along the edge of the end sheet in each set,
5 placing the loops opposite each other.
6 Make 50 gold fasteners. Use them to link the [two sets of] sheets together so that the tent is a single unit.
7 "Make 11 sheets of goats' hair to form an outer tent over the inner tent.
8 Each of the 11 sheets will be 45 feet long and 6 feet wide.
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