1Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen of violet, purple, and scarlet thread; with cherubim of quality workmanship you shall make them. 2The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measurement for all the curtains. 3Five curtains shall be joined to one another, and the other five curtains shall be joined to one another. 4And you shall make loops of violet material on the edge of the one curtain on the extremity at the joint, and likewise you shall do on the outer edge of the other curtain at the second joint. 5Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is on the end of the second joint, that the loops may fit to one another. 6And you shall make fifty hooks of gold, and join the curtains together with the hooks, so that it may be one tabernacle. 7You shall also make curtains of goats' hair, to be a tent over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains. 8The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measurement for the eleven curtains. 9And you shall join five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the face of the tent. 10You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost at the one joint, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain at the second joint. 11And you shall make fifty bronze hooks, put the hooks into the loops, and join the tent together, that it may be one. 12The remnant that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. 13And a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other side, of what remains of the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and on that side, to cover it. 14You shall also make a covering of ram skins dyed red for the tent, and a covering of badger skins above that. 15And for the tabernacle you shall make the boards of acacia wood, standing upright. 16Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the width of each board. 17Two tenons shall be in each board to join one to another. Thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle. 18And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side. 19You shall make forty sockets of silver for the twenty boards: two sockets for each of the boards for its two tenons. 20And for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, twenty boards 21and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets for each of the boards. 22For the side of the tabernacle, westward, you shall make six boards. 23And you shall also make two boards for the two back corners of the tabernacle. 24They shall be joined together at the bottom and they shall be joined together at the top by one ring. Thus it shall be for both of them. They shall be for the two corners. 25Thus there shall be eight boards with their sockets of silver; sixteen sockets; two sockets for each board. 26And you shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle, 27five bars for the boards on the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the side westward. 28The middle bar shall pass through the midst of the boards from end to end. 29You shall overlay the boards with gold, make their rings of gold as housings for the bars, and overlay the bars with gold. 30And you shall erect the tabernacle according to the ordinance which you were shown on the mountain. 31You shall make a veil of violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twisted linen. It shall be done with cherubim of quality workmanship. 32You shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall be gold, upon four sockets of silver. 33And you shall hang the veil from the hooks. And you shall bring the ark of the Testimony in there, inside the veil. The veil shall divide for you between the holy and the Holy of Holies. 34You shall put the mercy seat upon the ark of the Testimony in the Holy of Holies. 35And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand across from the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side. 36And you shall make a screen for the opening of the tent, of violet, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twisted linen, the product of skillful weaving. 37And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 1 Exod 26:1 The ten curtains of the tabernacle.
Exod 26:7 The eleven curtains of goats' hair, and the covering of rams' and badgers' skins.
Exod 26:15 The boards of the tabernacle, with their sockets and bars.
Exod 26:31 The vail for the ark.
Exod 26:36 The hanging for the door.
the tabernacle with ten curtains. The word
mishcan, from
shachan, to dwell, means simply a dwelling-place, or habitation. "When God had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt," says the very learned Dr. Cudworth, "resolving to manifest himself in a peculiar manner present among them, he thought good to dwell amongst them in a visible and external manner; and therefore, while they were in the wilderness, and sojourned in tents, he would have a tent or tabernacle built, to sojourn with them also. --Now, the tabernacle being thus a house for God to dwell in visibly, to make up the notion of dwelling or habitation complete, there must be all things suitable to a house belonging to it. Hence, in the holy place, there must be a table and a candlestick, because these were the ordinary furniture of a room. The table must have its dishes, and spoons, and bowls, and covers, belonging to it, though they were never used; and always be furnished with bread upon it. The candlestick must have its lamps continually burning, etc."
Exod 25:8 Exod 36:8 -
Exod 36:19 Exod 40:2 Exod 40:17 -
Exod 40:19 1Chr 17:1 1Chr 21:29 John 1:14 John 2:21 Heb 8:2 Heb 9:9 Heb 9:23 Heb 9:24 Rev 21:3fine twined linen.
Exod 26:36 Exod 25:4 Exod 35:6 Exod 35:35 Rev 19:8cherubims.
Exod 25:18cunning work. Heb. the work of a cunning workman, orembroiderer.
2 curtain.
Exod 26:7 Exod 26:8 Num 4:25 2Sam 7:2 1Chr 17:1 3 coupled together.
Exod 26:9 Exod 36:10 John 17:21 1Cor 12:4 1Cor 12:12 -
1Cor 12:27 Eph 2:21 Eph 2:22 Eph 4:3 -
Eph 4:6 Eph 4:16 Col 2:2 Col 2:19 4 loops of blue.
Exod 26:5 Exod 26:10 Exod 26:11 Exod 36:11 Exod 36:12 Exod 36:17 5 Exod 26:5 6 taches of gold.
Exod 26:11 Exod 26:33 Exod 35:11 Exod 36:13 Exod 36:18 Exod 39:33one tabernacle.
Eph 1:22 Eph 1:23 Eph 4:16 1Pet 2:4 1Pet 2:5 7 curtains.
Exod 35:26 Exod 36:14 -
Exod 36:18 Num 4:25 Ps 45:13 1Pet 3:4 1Pet 5:5goats' hair.
Izzim, goats, but used here elliptically for goats' hair. In different parts of Asia Minor, Syria, Cilicia, and Phrygia, the goats have long, fine, and beautiful hair; in some cases, almost as fine as silk, which is shorn at proper times, and manufactured into garments.
Exod 25:4 Exod 35:6 Exod 35:23 Num 31:20a.
Exod 26:14 Isa 4:5eleven.
Exod 26:1 Exod 26:9 Exod 26:12 8 length of one curtain.
Exod 26:2 Exod 26:13 9 five curtains by themselves.
Exod 26:3 10 fifty loops.
Exod 26:4 -
Exod 26:6 11 tent. or, covering.
Exod 26:3 Exod 26:6 12 shall hang over.
Exod 26:9 13 a cubit.
Exod 26:2 Exod 26:8of that which remaineth. Heb. in the remainder orsurplusage.
14 a covering.
Exod 36:19 Num 4:5 Ps 27:5 Ps 121:4 Ps 121:5 Isa 4:6 Isa 25:4rams' skins dyed red.
Oroth ailim meoddamim, literally, the skins of red rams. It is a fact, attested by many respectable travellers, that in the Levant, sheep are often met with having red or violet coloured fleeces. Almost all ancient writers speak of the same thing.
Exod 25:5 Exod 35:7 Exod 35:23 Exod 39:34 Num 4:10 Ezek 16:10badgers' skins.
Oroth techashim, which nearly all the ancient versions have taken to be the name of a colour, though they differ very much with regard to the particular colour intended: the LXX., Vulgate, and Coptic, have skins dyed of a violet colour; the Syriac, azure; and the Arabic, black; and Bochart contends for the hysginus, a very deep blue. It may, however, denote an animal; for Dr. Geddes remarks, had the sacred writer meant to express only a variety of colour, he would hardly have repeated
oroth, skins, after
meoddamim, red, in ch. 25:5.
Exod 25:5 15 boards.
Exod 26:18 Exod 26:22 -
Exod 26:29 Exod 36:20 -
Exod 36:33 Exod 40:17 Exod 40:18 Num 4:31 Num 4:32 Eph 2:20 Eph 2:21of shittim.
Exod 25:5 16 Exod 26:16 17 tenons. Heb. hands.
Exod 26:19 Exod 36:22 Exod 36:24 18 Exod 26:18 19 forty sockets of silver.
Exod 26:25 Exod 26:37 Exod 27:10 Exod 27:12 -
Exod 27:18 Exod 36:24 -
Exod 36:26 Exod 38:27 Exod 38:30 Exod 38:31 Exod 40:18 Num 3:36 Num 4:31 Num 4:32 Song 5:15 20 Exod 26:20 21 two sockets under one board.
Exod 26:19 22 Exod 26:22 23 corners: [Strong's *H4742*],
Exod 36:28 24 be coupled. Heb. twined.
and they shall be coupled together above.
Exod 36:29 Exod 36:30 Ps 133:1 -
Ps 133:3 1Cor 1:10 1Cor 3:16 1Pet 2:5 25 Exod 26:25 26 bars of shittim wood.
Exod 36:31 -
Exod 36:38 Num 3:36 Num 4:31 Rom 15:1 1Cor 9:19 1Cor 9:20 Gal 6:1 Gal 6:2 Eph 4:16 Col 2:19 27 Exod 26:27 28 reach: lit, flee,
1Chr 12:15;
Neh 13:28;
Job 41:28;
Pro 19:26 29 overlay the boards with gold.
Exod 25:11 Exod 25:12 30 rear up the tabernacle.
Exod 40:2 Exod 40:17 Exod 40:18 Num 10:21 Josh 18:1 Heb 8:2according to the fashion.
Exod 25:9 Exod 25:40 Exod 27:8 Acts 7:44 Heb 8:5 Heb 9:23 31 a vail of.
Exod 36:35 Exod 40:3 Exod 40:21 Lev 16:2 Lev 16:15 2Chr 3:14 Matt 27:51 Mark 15:38 Luke 23:45 Eph 2:14 Heb 9:3 -
Heb 9:8 Heb 10:20 Heb 10:21blue.
Exod 25:4 Exod 35:6 Exod 35:25 Exod 35:35 Exod 36:8purple.
Argaman, a very precious colour, extracted from the purpura, or murex, a species of shell-fish; and supposed to be the same with the costly and much celebrated Tyrian purple.
scarlet. Tolaâth; properly the worm whence the scarlet colour was produced; which grew in a coccus, or excrescence, of a shrub of the ilex kind, like the cochineal worm in the Opuntia of America; which is arranged under the same genus as the Arabic
Kermez, which also denotes this colour.
cunning work.
Exod 26:1 Exod 28:15 Exod 38:23 2Chr 2:7 -
2Chr 2:13 Ps 137:5 Song 7:1cherubims shall it be made.
Exod 25:18 32 pillars of shittim.
Exod 26:37 Exod 36:38 Esth 1:6their hooks shall be of gold. The Hebrew
waveyhem, which we translate their hooks, is rendered by the LXX. [kephalides,] and by the Vulgate,
capiata, capitals. Hence Calmet contends,
1. That if Moses does not mean the capitals of the pillars by this word, he mentions them nowhere else; and it would seem strange, that while he describes them with so much exactness, that he should not mention the capitals; or that pillars every way so correctly formed, should have been destitute of this necessary ornament.
2. As Moses was commanded to make the
wavim of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver, (ch. 27:10, 11,
Exod 27:10,
Exod 27:11) and the
wavim of the pillars of the vail of gold, (ch. 36:36,
Exod 36:36) and that 1,775 shekels were employed in making them, overlaying their chapiters,
rasheyhem, their heads, and filleting them, (ch. 38:28,
Exod 38:28) it is more reasonable to suppose that all this is spoken of the capitals of pillars, than of any kind of hooks, especially as hooks are mentioned under the word taches or clasps. But as the root
wavah seems to signify to connect, (for [wwy,] in Arabic, is to marry a wife,) and as the letter [ww,]
wav, if it has not its name from its hook-like form, is yet used as a connective particle, it would rather appear to denote hooks, which connected the curtains or vails to the pillars. The LXX. also render it [agkulai,] "handles", and [krikoi,] "rings" or "clasps".
33 the taches.
Exod 27:10 Exod 36:36within the vail.
Gen 9:4 Gen 9:5the ark of the testimony.
Exod 25:16 Exod 40:21the holy place.
Lev 16:2 1Kgs 8:6 1Kgs 8:10 2Chr 5:7 -
2Chr 5:10 Heb 9:2 Heb 9:3 34 put the mercy seat.
Exod 25:21 Exod 40:20 Heb 9:5 35 the table.
Exod 40:22 Heb 9:2 Heb 9:8 Heb 9:9the candlestick.
Exod 25:31 -
Exod 25:37 Exod 40:24 36 hanging. This may be termed the first vail, as it occupied the door or entrance to the tabernacle; the vail that separated the Holy of Holies is called the second vail,
Heb 9:3. Mk. Morier, (Second Journey Through Persia, p. 251,) describing the tent of a chief of the Eelauts, says, "It was composed of a wooden frame of circular laths, which were fixed on the ground, and then covered over with large felts, that were fastened down by a cord, ornamented by tassels of various colours. A curtain, curiously worked by the women, with coarse needle-work of various colours, was suspended over the door. In the king of Persia's tents, magnificent
perdahs, or hangings of needle-work, are suspended, as well as on the doors of the great mosques in Turkey; and these circumstances combined, will, perhaps, illustrate
Exod 26:36."
Exod 36:37 Exod 40:28 John 10:9 John 14:6the tent.
Exod 35:11 Exod 39:33 Exod 40:29 Num 3:25 Num 9:15 2Sam 7:6 Ps 78:60of blue.
Exod 26:31 37 overlay them with gold.
Exod 36:38
