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Exodus 27:14

in Exodus 27

Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

KJV

The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

This verse in Exodus 27

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long

on Exodus 27:14-16

Fifteen cubits of linen on either side leave a twenty-cubit gate, the one coloured thing in the perimeter. The single way in faces east, the quarter where Genesis 3:24 set the cherubim.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The hangings of one side of the gate,.... Or entrance into the court: shall be fifteen cubits; or seven yards and a half: their pillars three, and their sockets three; and so stood at the same distance from one another as the rest of the pillars did, the distance of five cubits.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the court of the tabernacle--The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle.

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The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַחֲמֵ֨שׁand [will be] fif-

    vachameshH2568 →343 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֥הteen

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • אַמָּ֛הcubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • קְלָעִ֖יםcurtains

    kelaimH7050 →22 times

  • לַכָּתֵ֑ףfor the side

    lakatefH3802 →67 times

  • עַמֻּדֵיהֶ֣םpillars their

    ʾamudeihemH5982 →111 times

  • שְׁלֹשָׁ֔הthree

    sheloshahH7969 →432 times

  • וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖םand bases their

    veadneihemH134 →57 times

  • שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃three

    sheloshahH7969 →432 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 27:9

    You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,

    it leads to

    • Exodus 38:9–20

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

    • Ezekiel 40:14

      Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.

    • Ezekiel 40:23

      There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured the distance from gateway to gateway to be a hundred cubits.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 36:37

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

    • Exodus 35:11

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

    • Numbers 9:15

      On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.

    • 2 Samuel 7:6

      For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved about with a tent as My dwelling.

    • Psalms 78:60

      He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

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.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.