Exodus 26:7
in Exodus 26You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them.
KJV
And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
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This verse in Exodus 26
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
curtains of goats' hair
on Exodus 26:7-11
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.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The stuff being less valuable, the tacks were so; but the brass tacks would answer the intention as effectually as the golden ones. The bonds of unity may be as strong between curtains of goats' hair as between those of purple and scarlet. Over this there was to be another covering, and that a double one (
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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.
And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Curtains of goats’ hair - Stuff made of goats’ hair. See Clarke’s note on Exo 25:4. This was the second covering.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעָשִׂ֙יתָ֙ | veasita | and you will make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| יְרִיעֹ֣ת | yeriot | curtains of | H3407 → | 54 times |
| עִזִּ֔ים | ʾizim | goat hair<s> | H5795 → | 74 times |
| לְאֹ֖הֶל | leohel | into a tent | H168 → | 345 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | over | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן | hamishkan | the tabernacle | H4908 → | 139 times |
| עַשְׁתֵּי־ | ʾashtei- | one [plus] | H6249 → | 19 times |
| עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה | ʾesreh | ten | H6240 → | 338 times |
| יְרִיעֹ֖ת | yeriot | curtains | H3407 → | 54 times |
| תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה | taaseh | you will make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֹתָֽם׃ | ʾotam | <obj.> them | H853 → | 10935 times |
וְעָשִׂ֙יתָ֙and you will make
veasitaH6213 →2628 times
יְרִיעֹ֣תcurtains of
yeriotH3407 →54 times
עִזִּ֔יםgoat hair<s>
ʾizimH5795 →74 times
לְאֹ֖הֶלinto a tent
leohelH168 →345 times
עַל־over
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ןthe tabernacle
hamishkanH4908 →139 times
עַשְׁתֵּי־one [plus]
ʾashtei-H6249 →19 times
עֶשְׂרֵ֥הten
ʾesrehH6240 →338 times
יְרִיעֹ֖תcurtains
yeriotH3407 →54 times
תַּעֲשֶׂ֥הyou will make
taasehH6213 →2628 times
אֹתָֽם׃<obj.> them
ʾotamH853 →10935 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 26:14Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.
it leads to
- Exodus 36:19
Additionally, he made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.
- Exodus 25:5
ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;
- Exodus 36:19
Through
Exodus 35:23Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or articles of fine leather, brought them.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 29:8
Whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.
- Exodus 25:2–7
“Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.
- 1 Chronicles 29:8
Through
Exodus 26:1“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.
it leads to
- Exodus 36:8–19
All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into…
- Exodus 26:36
For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.
- Exodus 36:35
Next, he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
- Exodus 25:18
Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,
- Exodus 36:8–19
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
