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Exodus 26:11

in Exodus 26

Make fifty bronze clasps and put them through the loops to join the tent together as a unit.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

KJV

And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

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This verse in Exodus 26

Commentary

3 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 Awakening2 voices

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 fifty taches of brass,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

The clasps of the curtains which made up the tabernacle. See I.E.’s comment on verse.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 26:11:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
The number of loops on the curtains of the tent. That is, the curtains made of goats’ hair.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 26:10:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • וְעָשִׂ֛יתָand you will make

    veasitaH6213 →2628 times

  • קַרְסֵ֥יhooks of

    karseiH7165 →10 times

  • נְחֹ֖שֶׁתbronze

    nechoshetH5178 →140 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֑יםfifty

    chamishimH2572 →163 times

  • וְהֵבֵאתָ֤and you will put

    vehevetaH935 →2568 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַקְּרָסִים֙the hooks

    hakerasimH7165 →10 times

  • בַּלֻּ֣לָאֹ֔תin the loops

    balulaotH3924 →13 times

  • וְחִבַּרְתָּ֥and you will join

    vechibartaH2266 →29 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאֹ֖הֶלthe tent

    haohelH168 →345 times

  • וְהָיָ֥הand it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • אֶחָֽד׃one

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

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 26:3

    Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five joined as well.

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 4:16

      From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Colossians 2:2

      that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

    • Ephesians 4:3–6

      and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

    • Colossians 2:19

      He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

    • Exodus 26:9

      Join five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another. Then fold the sixth curtain over double at the front of the tent.

  • Through

    Exodus 26:6

    Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 35:11

      the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;

    • Ephesians 1:22–23

      And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

    • Exodus 39:33

      Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and bases;

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.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 26 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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