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Exodus 26:8

in Exodus 26

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.

KJV

The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

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This verse in Exodus 26

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle

on Exodus 26:7-11

The second covering is goat hair, eleven curtains against the ten below, and it is called a tent while the linen beneath is the tabernacle. Its “fifty bronze clasps” are bronze where the inner ones are gold, since the further out a thing sits the plainer its metal.

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.
The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits,.... The breadth of them is the same with the linen curtains, but the length of them two cubits more; the reason of which was, that they might hang down lower on either side, and the better preserve them from any injury: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure; as to length and breadth.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • אֹ֣רֶךְ׀[the] length of

    ʾorekhH753 →95 times

  • הַיְרִיעָ֣הthe curtain

    hayriahH3407 →54 times

  • הָֽאַחַ֗ת<the> one

    haachatH259 →971 times

  • שְׁלֹשִׁים֙[will be] thirty

    sheloshimH7970 →172 times

  • בָּֽאַמָּ֔הby the cubit

    baamahH520 →247 times

  • וְרֹ֙חַב֙and [the] breadth

    verochavH7341 →101 times

  • אַרְבַּ֣ע[will be] four

    ʾarba'H702 →318 times

  • בָּאַמָּ֔הby the cubit

    baamahH520 →247 times

  • הַיְרִיעָ֖הthe curtain

    hayriahH3407 →54 times

  • הָאֶחָ֑ת<the> one

    haechatH259 →971 times

  • מִדָּ֣הsize

    midahH4060 →55 times

  • אַחַ֔תone

    ʾachatH259 →971 times

  • לְעַשְׁתֵּ֥י[will belong] to one [plus]

    leashteiH6249 →19 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֖הten

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • יְרִיעֹֽת׃curtains

    yeriotH3407 →54 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 26:13

    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.

    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; 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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