Exodus 26:5

5 You will make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you will make fifty loops on the end of the curtain that [is] in the second set; the loops are to be opposite {to one another}.

Exodus 26:5 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:5

Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain
In the first great curtain, or in the outermost of the five that were sewed together: and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in
the coupling of the second;
as many also were to be made in the outermost of the second great curtain where it was to be coupled with the first: that the loops may take hold one of another;
or rather that they might answer to one another in both curtains; for the loops could not take hold of one another, only were made to meet together by the taches, hooks, or clasps put into them, next mentioned.

Exodus 26:5 In-Context

3 Five curtains will be joined {to one another}, and five curtains joined {to one another}.

4 And you will make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end in the set; and you will do so on the edge of the end curtain in the second set.

5 You will make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you will make fifty loops on the end of the curtain that [is] in the second set; the loops are to be opposite {to one another}.

6 And you will make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains {to one another} with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be one.

7 "And you will make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you will make them eleven curtains.

Footnotes

• [a] Or "interlinked" or "matching"
• [b] Literally "a woman to her sister"