Exoduschapter 26
37 verses · Moses, by tradition · 15th or 13th century BC · The Law
“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.
Introduction
Moses, by tradition, The Law, Exodus Overview.
This chapter gives the plan of the tent itself, the house that the furniture of the last chapter will stand in. Moses received it for a people who lived in tents and moved often. The plan is for a dwelling that could be taken down, carried and set up again. Listen for the layers from the inside out, each one of a different material. Listen also for the curtain near the end that divides the tent into two rooms. That curtain is still spoken of in the Gospels.
Context
- Who
- Israel in the wilderness, a tent-dwelling people given a tent for God
- What
- The plans for the tabernacle's curtains, coverings and wooden frame, and for the veil that divides the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
- Where
- The summit of Mount Sinai, where Moses received the pattern while the camp waited at the foot of the mountain.
- When
- The forty days Moses spent on Sinai after the covenant was sealed, about 1446 BC on the early date this site follows.
- Why
- To give the LORD a dwelling among His people that could travel with them through the wilderness.
Historical context
The chapter belongs to the law Exodus says Moses wrote at God's command, recorded at 17:14, at 24:4 and at 34:27, while he was going up and down the mountain between God and the people. The critical reading takes the legal sections for a later compilation from several sources, a position argued by Julius Wellhausen and the tradition following him, and the site states no verdict on it.
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The chapter gives the tent, its frame and its two hangings, and it is built in chapter 36.
Albert Barnes reads the Hebrew as naming three things, the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, and warns that the English versions run them together.
A first hearer knew the cloth, since goat hair swells when wet and sheds rain, and it is still woven for tents in that country.
He knew what a demountable frame was for, since the acacia boards stand in silver bases joined by bars and the whole comes apart to be carried.
Adam Clarke reasons that the gold overlay must have been very thin, something like gold leaf, or the boards would have been impossible to carry.
Portable shrines were not unknown, and John Currid records that Egyptian military camps set the king's pavilion at the centre of a rectangular enclosure.
Inside, a veil of worked linen hangs on four posts and divides the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place, with the ark behind it.
Adam Clarke calls the entrance curtain the first veil and the inner one the second, as Hebrews 9:3 does.
Significance
Israel lived in tents and God chose a tent, so that He was not housed better than His people while they were on the road.
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The veil was the chapter's hardest lesson. God had moved in, and there was still a curtain, and one man went behind it once a year.
This chapter in Jewish lifeWhat this chapter is in Jewish life and reading.
How it is read
The chapter gives the curtains, the boards and the veil, and Rashi reads it as a builder reads a plan. The ten curtains serve as a roof and as a covering for the outside of the boards, hanging behind them (Rashi on Exodus 26:1:1). The curtains were sewn "together with a needle, each five separately" (Rashi on Exodus 26:3:1). He measures the second set against the first, so that the goats hair curtains of thirty cubits run a cubit further on each side than the lower ones (Rashi on Exodus 26:8:1). On the coverings above them he names a difference among the Rabbis and gives Rabbi Nehemia's opinion, that the goats hair and the skins formed two covers one above the other (Rashi on Exodus 26:14:1). The height of the tabernacle follows from the board, since a board of ten cubits standing upright sets the height at ten (Rashi on Exodus 26:16:1). The tenons cut at the foot of each board, and the hollow sockets they were fixed into, he describes from the Baraitha on the structure of the tabernacle (Rashi on Exodus 26:17:1 and 26:25:1). Because the entrance stood on the east, he calls the east the front and the west the back (Rashi on Exodus 26:22:1). The traditional insight a Christian reader is likely to find new stands on the definite article of the boards. Rashi reads it as pointing to timber already set aside. Jacob planted cedars in Egypt, and when he died he told his sons to carry them up when they left (Rashi on Exodus 26:15:1). Rashi is quoted from the Rosenbaum and Silbermann edition of 1929 to 1934, public domain. Ibn Ezra comments at Exodus 26:2:1, 26:10:1 and 26:11:1 under a licence that keeps his text off this page.
What the rabbis say
The corpus records forty places where the Midrash and the Talmud draw on this chapter, cited here by reference. Midrash Lekach Tov follows the chapter closely at Exodus 26:3:1, 26:6:1, 26:9:1 and 26:9:2. It continues at Exodus 26:10:1, 26:10:2, 26:12:1, 26:12:2 and 26:13:1. It reads the boards and the bolts at Exodus 26:22:1, 26:23:1 and 26:26:1. Midrash Tanchuma reads the curtains at Terumah 5:1 and 6:1, and Pesikta DeRav Kahana at 1:6. Bamidbar Rabbah carries the chapter at 6:3, 12:4, 12:13, 13:19 and 18:14. The Otzar Midrashim collections read it at Forty Nine Midot 8, Sefer Tagin 5:160 and Baraita of Samuel HaKatan 1:4. The Jerusalem Talmud reads the curtains at Shabbat 7:2:44, 7:2:46 and 15:1:2, and at Peah 6:3:7. It reads the veil at Shekalim 8:2:1. Bekhorot 44a:15 reads the board, and Chagigah 26b:4 the placing of the table and the lampstand.
Sources: Rashi, Rashi on Exodus 26:1 to 26:29, the Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A. M. Silbermann, 1929 to 1934, public domain, 1040 to 1105; Ibn Ezra, Ibn Ezra on Exodus 26:2:1, 26:10:1 and 26:11:1, cited by reference, CC-BY-NC, 1089 to 1164; Midrash Lekach Tov, Exodus 26:3:1 to 26:26:1, cited by reference; Midrash Tanchuma, Terumah 5:1 and 6:1, cited by reference; Jerusalem Talmud, Shabbat 7:2:44, 7:2:46 and 15:1:2, Peah 6:3:7 and Shekalim 8:2:1, cited by reference; Bamidbar Rabbah, 6:3, 12:4, 12:13, 13:19 and 18:14, cited by reference; The Sefaria corpus, scripts/data/sources/sefaria/exodus/26.json, fetched 2026-09-19, 2026; MannaFest, the commentators and their dates, src/app/featured/the-jewish-writings/page.tsx, 2026.
The heads below are this chapter's scenes. The numbered points under each are its verses.
Curtains and Coverings of the Tent
The first thing named in the tabernacle is not a wall but a woven cloth, and the figures worked into it are cherubims. Genesis 3:24 set cherubims at the east of Eden with a flaming sword to keep the way of the tree of life, and here they are woven into the covering of the place where God will dwell among the people. The same four materials, fine twined linen with blue, purple and scarlet, return at the vail in verse 31 and at the door in verse 36.
Exodus 26:1
“It should be known that just as a garment is woven on two beams, namely the upper and the lower, so charity is held in two commandments, that is, in the love of God and of neighbor. For it is written: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength; and your neighbor as yourself." Therefore whoever takes care to have a wedding garment at the wedding must keep these two commandments of charity.”
Gregory the Dialogist · written before 604 · 40 Homilies on the Gospels, Homily 38patristic
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.”
Fifty loops and fifty gold taches join the two sets of five, and the sentence ends by insisting on the result, that it shall be one tabernacle. The word one carries the paragraph and it is repeated at verse 11 for the outer tent. Ten separate pieces of cloth are made to count as a single covering.
Exodus 26:3
“The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another,.... Five of the ten curtains were to be sewed together, and make as it were one curtain: and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another: the other five were to be joined together in like manner, and so made two large pieces of tapestry of fourteen yards long and ten broad, according to the common account of a cubit, but were much longer and broader.”
Exodus 26:6
“And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold,.... Which some render "buttons" (i), others "hooks" (k) 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(i) קרסי "fibulas", Tigurine version, Vatablus (k) "Uncinos", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius; so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan.”
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Exodus 26:6
“Thus the churches of Christ and the saints, though they are many, are yet one, being fitly joined together in holy love, and by the unity of the Spirit, so growing into one holy temple in the Lord, Eph. ii. This tabernacle was very strait and narrow; but, at the preaching of the gospel, the church is bidden to enlarge the place of her tent, and to stretch forth her curtains, Isa. liv.”
Matthew Henry · Commentary on the Whole Bible (1707-1721)puritan
The second covering is goats' hair, eleven curtains against the ten below, and it is called a tent while the linen beneath it is called the tabernacle. Its taches are brass where the inner ones are gold, which is the first of the graded distinctions in this chapter, since the further out a thing sits the plainer its metal. The same insistence on unity closes the paragraph, that it may be one.
Exodus 26:7
“Curtains of goats’ hair - Stuff made of goats’ hair. See Clarke’s note on Exo 25:4. This was the second covering.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible (1810-1826)evangelical
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Exodus 26:7
“Thus the churches of Christ, though they are many, yet are one, being fitly joined together in holy love and by the unity of the Spirit, so growing into one holy temple in the Lord. This tabernacle was very strait and narrow, but at the preaching of the gospel, the church is bid to enlarge the place of her tent, and to stretch forth her curtains, Isaiah liv, 2.”
John Wesley · Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)evangelical
Exodus 26:8
“The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits,.... The breadth of them is the same with the linen curtains, but the length of them two cubits more; the reason of which was, that they might hang down lower on either side, and the better preserve them from any injury: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure; as to length and breadth.”
Exodus 26:10
“And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain, that is outmost in the coupling,.... Just in like manner, and in the same place where they were ordered to be put on the linen curtains, only these are not said to be of blue, but perhaps were wrought with goats hair: and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second; these loops were set on each of the curtains where the two large pieces were to be coupled together.”
The extra length of the goats' hair is not trimmed off but left to hang down the back and the sides, so the outer tent overshoots the frame in every direction. Two more coverings go over that, rams' skins dyed red and badgers' skins, and the text gives no measurements for either. What a passerby saw was the plainest layer, and the gold and the cherubims were visible only from inside.
Exodus 26:13
“And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side o that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent,....”
Exodus 26:14
“Rams’ skins dyed red - See Clarke’s note on Exo 25:5. This was the third covering; and what is called the badgers’ skins was the fourth. See Clarke’s note on Exo 25:5. Why there should have been four coverings does not appear.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible (1810-1826)evangelical
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Exodus 26:14
“Now observe here, (1.) That the outside of the tabernacle was coarse and rough, the beauty of it was in the inner curtains. Those in whom God dwells must labour to be better than they seem to be. Hypocrites put the best side outwards, like whited sepulchres; but the king's daughter is all glorious within ( Ps. xlv.”
Matthew Henry · Commentary on the Whole Bible (1707-1721)puritan
Boards, Sockets, and Bars
Under the curtains stands a frame of acacia boards, each ten cubits high and set upright. Every board rests in two silver sockets, and Exodus 38:27 says where that silver came from, the hundred talents of atonement money gathered at half a shekel a man and cast at a talent to a socket. The frame of the dwelling place stands on ransom money.
Exodus 26:15
“Thou shalt make boards - These formed what might be called the walls of the tabernacle, and were made of shittim wood, the acacia Nilotica, which Dr. Shaw says grows here in abundance. To have worked the acacia into these boards or planks, the Israelites must have had sawyers, joiners, etc., among them; but how they got the tools is a question.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible (1810-1826)evangelical
Exodus 26:16
“Ten cubits shall be the length of a board - Each of these boards or planks was about five yards and two feet and a half long, and thirty-two inches broad; and as they are said to be standing up, this was the Height of the tabernacle. The length being thirty cubits, twenty boards, one cubit and a half broad each, make about seventeen yards and a half, and the Breadth was about five yards.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible (1810-1826)evangelical
Exodus 26:17
“Two tenons shall there be on one board,.... Every board was to be so cut and shaped at the lower end of it, as to have, as it were, "two hands" (r), as in the original, to enter into, lay hold on, and fasten in mortises: set in order one against another; at a proper distance from each other, as the rounds of a ladder: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle; everyone was to have two tenons. (r) שתי ידות "duae manus", Montanus.”
Exodus 26:18
“And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,.... As in the manner before described, so in number as follows: twenty boards on the south side southward; which being a cubit and a half broad, made the length of the tabernacle fifteen yards according to the common account; but if these were cubits of twenty one inches, then its length was much greater.”
For the second side of the tabernacle: Twenty boards south, twenty north, and eight at the west end with the two corner boards doubled and ringed together. The east end is left open here and is closed in verses 36 and 37 by a hanging rather than by boards. Forty sockets, forty sockets and sixteen make ninety six under the boards, and the four under the pillars of the vail bring it to the hundred that Exodus 38:27 counts.
Exodus 26:20
“And for the second side of the tabernacle the north side,.... The direction of the tabernacle was east and west; at the east end was the entrance into the holy place, and at the west end the holy of holies; and the two sides were north and south; and as on the south side, so on the north there shall be twenty boards: just the same number as the laws of building required.”
Exodus 26:21
“And their forty sockets of silver,.... answerable to the twenty boards, for their two tenons to be placed in as in mortises: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board; and so under all the boards on the north side as on the south.”
Exodus 26:22
“And for the sides of the tabernacle,.... Or the ends of it, the east and west, and the account begins with the west: westward thou shalt make six boards; so that the breadth of the tabernacle was but nine cubits, or four yards and a half, according to a common cubit; but two boards more placed at the two corners of the sides, next observed, added to the breadth of it.”
Exodus 26:23
“And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.”
Five bars a side hold the boards together, and the middle bar runs from end to end while the others do not. Everything the eye would meet is overlaid with gold, the boards, the rings and the bars alike. The whole frame is built to be taken apart and carried, which Numbers 4 sets out in detail.
Exodus 26:26
“And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood, Which being put into rings or staples of gold, kept the boards tight, close, and firm together: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle: for instance, the south side; four of these were placed, two at the upper end of the boards, and two at the lower end, and the fifth in the middle, particularly taken notice of, Exo 26:28, how long these bars were it is not said, but it is reasonable to conclude that they reached the length of the tabernacle, which was thirty cubits; and…”
Exodus 26:28
“And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.”
Exodus 26:29
“Thou shalt overlay the boards with gold - It is not said how thick the gold was by which these boards, etc., were overlaid; it was no doubt done with gold plates, but these must have been very thin, else the boards, etc., must have been insupportably heavy. The gold was probably something like our gold leaf, but not brought to so great a degree of tenuity.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible (1810-1826)evangelical
The building instructions close by saying that Moses is copying something he was shown rather than designing something. Exodus 25:40 said the same at the start of the pattern, and Hebrews 8:5 quotes that verse and calls the whole structure the example and shadow of heavenly things. That the tabernacle is a copy is stated by the New Testament, while readings of each item of furniture as a separate figure of Christ are a tradition taught by Chuck Missler and by Sir Robert Anderson.
Exodus 26:30
“And thou shall rear up the tabernacle,.... When thus finished, and all the furniture belonging to it completed: according to the fashion thereof, which was showed thee in the mount; this is the third time that this is observed to Moses in the account of the tabernacle; which shows how punctually God would have the pattern observed he had given him, and that all things might be particularly and exactly done according to it, see Heb 8:5.”
The Veil and the Screen
The vail carries cherubims like the innermost curtain, and it does one job, which is to divide the holy place from the most holy. Cherubims stand again where the way is closed, as they did at Eden in Genesis 3:24. Matthew 27:51 reports this curtain torn from the top to the bottom at the death of Jesus, and Hebrews 10:20 calls the new and living way one that runs through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.
Exodus 26:31
“Thou shalt make a veil - פרכת parocheth, from פרך parach, to break or rend; the inner veil of the tabernacle or temple, (2Ch 3:14), which broke, interrupted, or divided between the holy place and the most holy; the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was standing. Compare Heb 9:8. The Septuagint constantly render it by καταπετασμα. Does not the Hebrew name פרכת parocheth moreover intimate the typical correspondence of this veil to the body or flesh of Christ?”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible (1810-1826)evangelical
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Exodus 26:31
“The apostle tells us, this veil, intimated that the ceremonial law could not make the comers thereunto perfect. The way into the holiest was not made manifest while the first tabernacle was standing; life and immortality lay concealed till they were brought to light by the gospel, which was therefore signified by the rending of this veil at the death of Christ.”
John Wesley · Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)evangelical
ConnectionsHebrews 10:20
Exodus 26:32
“Their hooks shall be of gold - וויהם vaveyhem, which we translate their hooks, is rendered κεφαλιδες, capitals, by the Septuagint, and capita by the Vulgate. As the word וו vav or vau, plural ווים vavim, occurs only in this book, Exo 26:32, Exo 26:37; Exo 27:10, Exo 27:11, Exo 27:17; Exo 36:36, Exo 36:38; Exo 38:10, Exo 38:11, Exo 38:12, Exo 38:17, Exo 38:19, Exo 38:28; and is used in these places in reference to the same subject, it is very difficult to ascertain its precise meaning.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible (1810-1826)evangelical
Exodus 26:33
“If the ancient custom of sacrifices is clear to you, let us see what these things also contain according to the mystical understanding. You heard that there were two sanctuaries, one, as it were, visible and open to the priests; the other, as it were, invisible and inaccessible. With the exception of the high priest alone, the others were outside.”
Origen of Alexandria · written before 253 · HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 9.9.3patristic
ConnectionsHebrews 9:24
Behind the vail there is one object, the ark with the mercy seat upon it, and the Greek word the Septuagint uses for that seat is hilasterion. Romans 3:25 uses the same word of Christ, which is a link no English reader can see without being told. Outside the vail stand the table on the north and the candlestick on the south, so the furniture is placed as carefully as it is made.
Exodus 26:34
“And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon ark of the testimony,.... With the cherubim of glory overshadowing it; all which were a representation of the way of man's salvation flowing from the mercy and grace of God, through the propitiation by Christ, and his perfect righteousness, by which the law is fulfilled; and all this is published in the Gospel by the ministers of it, signified by the cherubim: and these are all the things that were "in the most holy place"; and they were placed at the west end of it.”
The door hanging uses the same four materials as the vail and the inner curtain, and the differences are exact. It is wrought with needlework where those are cunning work, it carries no cherubims, and its five pillars stand in sockets of brass where the vail's four stand in silver. The chapter grades everything by how far in it sits, and it never says why.
Exodus 26:36
“A hanging for the door of the tent - This may be called the first veil, as it occupied the door or entrance to the tabernacle; the veil that separated the holy place from the holy of holies is called the second veil, Heb 9:3. These two veils and the inner covering of the tabernacle were all of the same materials, and of the same workmanship. See Exo 27:16.”
Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible (1810-1826)evangelical
Exodus 26:37
“And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood,.... One at each corner of the entrance into the tabernacle, and the other three at a proper distance from each other, so as to make four ways for the priests to enter in at; as there might very well be, since there was a breadth of ten cubits, or five yards or more: and overlay them with gold; with plates of gold, for a gild would soon wear off by continual use in passing and repassing.”
How this psalm is built
The form: Building instruction in three named parts, the tabernacle proper, its tent and its covering, as Barnes classes it.
The patterns in this chapter
| Device | What it does | Where to see it |
|---|---|---|
| Fifty loops and fifty clasps, twice over | The linen curtains take fifty loops of blue and fifty clasps of gold at verses 5 and 6. The goat hair curtains take fifty loops and fifty clasps of bronze at verses 10 and 11. The two sets are described in the same words with the metal changed, and each is joined so that the whole becomes a unit. | Exodus 26:5, Exodus 26:6, Exodus 26:10, Exodus 26:11 |
| So that the tabernacle will be a unit | Verse 6 says the clasps join the curtains so that the tabernacle will be a unit. Verse 11 says the bronze clasps join the tent together as a unit. Counted in the Berean text of the chapter, the purpose is stated twice in the same terms, once for the inner set and once for the outer. | Exodus 26:6, Exodus 26:11 |
| The frame counted out side by side | Twenty frames and forty silver bases on the south at verses 18 and 19. Twenty frames and forty bases on the north at verses 20 and 21. Six frames for the rear and two for the corners, making eight frames and sixteen bases at verses 22 to 25. Each side is given its own count, and the totals are stated rather than left to the reader. | Exodus 26:18, Exodus 26:20, Exodus 26:22, Exodus 26:25 |
| The cherubim worked into the cloth twice | The ten linen curtains of verse 1 carry cherubim skilfully worked into them. The veil of verse 31 carries cherubim skilfully worked into it in the same words. The figures stand on the roof over the room and on the curtain that shuts it, and the ark inside has two more hammered in gold. | Exodus 26:1, Exodus 26:31, Exodus 26:33 |
This chapter is built in chapter 36, and Albert Barnes marks the pairing at verse 1 by referring the reader to Exodus 36:8 to 33. The two accounts run in the same order with the verbs changed from command to execution.
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The veil of verses 31 to 33 is the piece the rest of Scripture takes up most often. It stands here as the divider between two rooms, and its position is the reason the room behind it could be entered once a year and no oftener.
The historical value
Adam Clarke brings two practical observations to the chapter. At verse 15 he identifies the shittim wood as the acacia, and says on the authority of Dr Shaw that it grows there in abundance. Working it into boards means the Israelites had sawyers and joiners among them. He then raises the question of where the tools came from and leaves it open. At verse 29 he reasons that the gold overlay must have been very thin, something like gold leaf, because the boards would otherwise have been insupportably heavy to carry.
The New Testament's use
The veil of verse 31 is named at Hebrews 9:3, where the room behind the second curtain is called the Most Holy Place. Adam Clarke points to that verse when he distinguishes the first veil at the door from the second veil inside.
John Wesley reads the veil through the argument of Hebrews, that the way into the holiest stood closed while the first tabernacle stood. He takes the tearing of the temple veil at the death of Christ as the answer to it. Matthew 27:51 records that tearing, and Hebrews 10:19 and 20 speak of a new and living way opened through the curtain of His body.
The debated reading
The chapter's contested points are matters of reconstruction rather than of doctrine, and the commentators differ because the text gives measurements without a drawing.
The first is what the three parts of verses 1 to 14 were and how they sat. Albert Barnes holds that the Hebrew distinguishes the tabernacle, the tent and the covering, and that the English versions run them together. A reader working from an English Bible alone will find the distinction hard to see, which is Barnes's own point.
The second is the size of the finished building. Adam Clarke converts the cubits at verse 16 and gives the height of the tabernacle as the length of one upright board. He works the length from twenty boards of a cubit and a half. His figures are conversions of the text's own numbers and are given here as his.
Why there were four coverings is a third question, and it is carried as a gap. Adam Clarke says that no reason appears, and none is offered here in his place.
The wider question of how far the tabernacle's details may be read as figures is set out in the study of chapter 25 and is not argued again. Matthew Henry's reading of this chapter is a fair sample of the practice. He takes the joining of the curtains into one at verse 6 as the unity of the churches. At verse 14 he takes the coarse outside with the beautiful inside as a charge to be better than we seem.
Where to go deeper
The veil stands at the veil and the way opened through it at the unveiled face. The dyed yarns stand at blue, purple and scarlet. The tent as God's dwelling stands at the house, and the copy and shadow of Hebrews at the shadow. The tabernacle as a whole has no page yet and is owed.
Keep studying
Sources for this chapter
The summary
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory; John Calvin, Commentaries; John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary.
The form and classifications
Adam Clarke and Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments, 1832 to 1869, on Exodus 26:1.
The exposition
Chuck Missler, Learn the Bible in 24 Hours; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Sir Robert Anderson, Types in Hebrews.