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Exodus 26:13

in Exodus 26

And the tent curtains will be a cubit longer on either side, and the excess will hang over the sides of the tabernacle to cover it.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

KJV

And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

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This verse in Exodus 26

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

As for the overlap that remains of the tent curtains

on Exodus 26:12-14

The extra goat hair hangs down the back and the sides, and two more coverings go over it, “ram skins dyed red” and “fine leather”. A passerby saw only the plainest layer, and the gold and the cherubim were visible only from inside.

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 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,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

AND THE CUBIT…WHICH REMAINETH OVER. The word ba-odef. That is, odef, for the bet in ba-odef, is a preposition.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 26:13:1, 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 ▾
Over the covering. Of the curtains made of goats’ hair. because of the rain. 59 To protect the lower curtains from the rain.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 26:14:1, 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

16 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.

  • וְהָאַמָּ֨הand the cubit

    vehaamahH520 →247 times

  • מִזֶּ֜הfrom this

    mizehH2088 →1180 times

  • וְהָאַמָּ֤הand the cubit

    vehaamahH520 →247 times

  • מִזֶּה֙from this

    mizehH2088 →1180 times

  • בָּעֹדֵ֔ףin the surplus

    baodefH5736 →9 times

  • בְּאֹ֖רֶךְin [the] length of

    beorekhH753 →95 times

  • יְרִיעֹ֣ת[the] curtains of

    yeriotH3407 →54 times

  • הָאֹ֑הֶלthe tent

    haohelH168 →345 times

  • יִהְיֶ֨הit will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • סָר֜וּחַprojecting

    saruachH5628 →

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • צִדֵּ֧י[the] sides of

    tzideiH6654 →33 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ןthe tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908 →139 times

  • מִזֶּ֥הfrom this

    mizehH2088 →1180 times

  • וּמִזֶּ֖הand from this

    umizehH2088 →1180 times

  • לְכַסֹּתֽוֹ׃to cover it

    lekhasotoH3680 →152 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

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 26:2

    Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 17:1

      After David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a…

    • Numbers 4:25

      They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting with the covering of fine leather over it, the curtains for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

    • 2 Samuel 7:2

      he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

    • Exodus 26:7–8

      You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

  • Through

    Exodus 26:8

    Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 26:2

      Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 26 →

This page draws on 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.

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