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Exodus 36:37

in Exodus 36

For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer;

KJV

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

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This verse in Exodus 36

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

They are preferred as cooler and more elegant than wooden doors. This chapter contains an instructive narrative: it is the first instance of donations made for the worship of God, given from the wages of the people's sufferings and toils.

This site's exposition

an hanging for the tabernacle door

on Exodus 36:37-38

The door hanging uses the same four materials as the vail and differs from it in three exact ways. It is needlework where the vail is 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 every material by how far in it sits and never once explains why, which Hebrews 9:8 later takes up, saying the way into the holiest was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing. 7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Hanging for the - door - See Clarke on Exo 26:36 (note), etc.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיַּ֤עַשׂand he made

    vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times

  • מָסָךְ֙a screen

    masokhH4539 →25 times

  • לְפֶ֣תַחfor [the] entrance of

    lefetachH6607 →164 times

  • הָאֹ֔הֶלthe tent

    haohelH168 →345 times

  • תְּכֵ֧לֶתviolet stuff

    tekheletH8504 →49 times

  • וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ןand purple

    veargamanH713 →38 times

  • וְתוֹלַ֥עַתand scarlet stuff of

    vetolaatH8438 →43 times

  • שָׁנִ֖יscarlet

    shaniH8144 →42 times

  • וְשֵׁ֣שׁand fine linen

    vesheshH8336 →41 times

  • מָשְׁזָ֑רtwisted

    mashezarH7806 →21 times

  • מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה[the] work of

    maasehH4639 →236 times

  • רֹקֵֽם׃a worker in colors

    rokemH7551 →9 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 40:28

    Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 40:5

      Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

    • Hebrews 10:19–20

      Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

    • Exodus 26:36–37

      For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.

    • John 10:9

      I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

    • Exodus 38:9–19

      Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,

Where this verse is studied

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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.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 36 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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