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Exodus 26:7

in Exodus 26

You 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.

This verse in Exodus 26

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This 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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

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

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

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 words

Every 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.

  • וְעָשִׂ֙יתָ֙and you will make

    veasitaH62132628 times

  • יְרִיעֹ֣תcurtains of

    yeriotH340754 times

  • עִזִּ֔יםgoat hair<s>

    ʾizimH579574 times

  • לְאֹ֖הֶלinto a tent

    leohelH168345 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ןthe tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908139 times

  • עַשְׁתֵּי־one [plus]

    ʾashtei-H624919 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֥הten

    ʾesrehH6240338 times

  • יְרִיעֹ֖תcurtains

    yeriotH340754 times

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֥הyou will make

    taasehH62132628 times

  • אֹתָֽם׃<obj.> them

    ʾotamH85310935 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 26:14

    Also 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;

  • Through

    Exodus 35:23

    Everyone 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.

  • 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,

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

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.