Exodus 26:6

6 Make 50 gold hooks. Use them to join the curtains together so that the holy tent is all one piece.

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

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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 loops out of blue strips of cloth along the edge of the end curtain in one set. Do the same thing with the end curtain in the other set.

5 Make 50 loops on the end curtain of the one set. Do the same thing on the end curtain of the other set. Put the loops across from each other.

6 Make 50 gold hooks. Use them to join the curtains together so that the holy tent is all one piece.

7 "Make a total of 11 curtains out of goat hair to put over the holy tent.

8 Make all 11 curtains the same size. They must be 45 feet long and six feet wide.