1 And thou shalt make the tabernacle, ten curtains of fine linen spun, and blue and purple, and scarlet spun [with] cherubs; thou shalt make them with work of a weaver. 2 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and one curtain shall be the breadth of four cubits: there shall be the same measure to all the curtains. 3 And the five curtains shall be joined one to another, and [the other] five curtains shall be closely connected the one with the other. 4 And thou shalt make for them loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, on one side for the coupling, and so shalt thou make on the edge of the outer curtain for the second coupling. 5 Fifty loops shalt thou make for one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make on the part of the curtain answering to the coupling of the second, opposite [each other], corresponding to each other at each point. 6 And thou shalt make fifty golden rings; and thou shalt join the curtains to each other with the rings, and it shall be one tabernacle. 7 And thou shalt make for a covering of the tabernacle skins with the hair on, thou shalt make them eleven skins. 8 The length of one skin thirty cubits, and the breadth of one skin four cubits: there shall be the same measure to the eleven skins. 9 And thou shalt join the five skins together, and the six skins together; and thou shalt double the sixth skin in front of the tabernacle. 10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the border of one skin, which is in the midst for the joinings; and thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the second skin that joins it. 11 And thou shalt make fifty brazen rings; and thou shalt join the rings by the loops, and thou shalt join the skins, and they shall be one. 12 And thou shalt fix at the end that which is over in the skins of the tabernacle; the half of the skin that is left shalt thou fold over, according to the overplus of the skins of the tabernacle; thou shalt fold it over behind the tabernacle. 13 A cubit on this side, and a cubit on that side of that which remains of the skins, of the length of the skins of the tabernacle: it shall be folding over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and that side, that it may cover it. 14 And thou shalt make for a covering of the tabernacle rams’ skins dyed red, and blue skins as coverings above. 15 And thou shalt make the posts of the tabernacle of incorruptible wood. 16 Of ten cubits shalt thou make one post, and the breadth of one post of a cubit and a half. 17 Two joints shalt thou make in one post, answering the one to the other: so shalt thou do to all the posts of the tabernacle. 18 And thou shalt make posts to the tabernacle, twenty posts on the north side. 19 And thou shalt make to the twenty posts forty silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides. 20 And for the next side, toward the south, twenty posts, 21 and their forty silver sockets: two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides. 22 And on the back of the tabernacle at the part which is toward the [west] thou shalt make six posts. 23 And thou shalt make two posts on the corners of the tabernacle behind. 24 And it shall be equal below, they shall be equal toward the same part from the heads to one joining; so shalt thou make to both the two corners, let them be equal. 25 And there shall be eight posts, and their sixteen silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post. 26 And thou shalt make bars of incorruptible wood; five to one post on one side of the tabernacle, 27 and five bars to one post on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the hinder posts, on the side of the tabernacle toward the sea. 28 And let the bar in the middle between the posts go through from the one side to the other side. 29 And thou shalt gild the posts with gold; and thou shalt make golden rings, into which thou shalt introduce the bars, and thou shalt gild the bars with gold. 30 And thou shalt set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown thee in the mount. 31 And thou shalt make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet woven, and fine linen spun: thou shalt make it cherubs [in] woven work. 32 And thou shalt set it upon four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their tops [shall be] gold, and their four sockets [shall be] of silver. 33 And thou shalt put the veil on the posts, and thou shalt carry in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall make a separation for you between the holy and the holy of holies. 34 And thou shalt screen with the veil the ark of the testimony in the holy of holies. 35 And thou shalt set the table outside the veil, and the candlestick opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle; and thou shalt put the table on the north side of the tabernacle. 36 And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the tabernacle of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet and fine linen spun, the work of the embroiderer. 37 And thou shalt make for the veil five posts, and thou shalt gild them with gold; and their chapiters shall be gold; and thou shalt cast for them five brazen sockets.
Exodus · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Exodus 26 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 36:8–19; Exodus 26:36; Exodus 26:31; Exodus 36:35; Exodus 25:18
- 2 2 Samuel 7:2; Numbers 4:25; 1 Chronicles 17:1; Exodus 26:7–8
- 3 Exodus 36:10; Exodus 26:9; Ephesians 2:21–22; John 17:21; Ephesians 4:16
- 4 Exodus 26:10–11; Exodus 36:11–12; Exodus 36:17; Exodus 26:5
- 6 Exodus 36:18; Exodus 26:33; Ephesians 4:16; Ephesians 1:22–23; Exodus 36:13
- 7 Exodus 26:14; Psalm 45:13; 1 Peter 5:5; Exodus 26:1; Exodus 35:23
- 8 Exodus 26:13; Exodus 26:2
- 11 Exodus 26:3; Exodus 26:6
- 13 Exodus 26:2; Exodus 26:8
- 14 Exodus 36:19; Exodus 25:5; Psalm 121:4–5; Exodus 35:7; Isaiah 4:6
- 15 Exodus 36:20–33; Exodus 40:17–18; Numbers 4:31–32; Ephesians 2:20–21; Exodus 26:22–29
- 17 Exodus 26:19; Exodus 36:24; Exodus 36:22
- 19 Exodus 38:27; Exodus 26:37; Numbers 4:31–32; Exodus 38:30–31; Exodus 27:12–18
- 24 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Peter 2:5; Psalm 133:1–3; Exodus 36:29–30; 1 Corinthians 1:10
- 26 Romans 15:1; Numbers 4:31; Exodus 36:31–38; Galatians 6:1–2; Ephesians 4:16
- 29 Exodus 25:11–12
- 30 Exodus 25:40; Hebrews 8:5; Exodus 25:9; Acts 7:44; Exodus 40:2
- 31 Matthew 27:51; 2 Chronicles 3:14; Exodus 36:35; Exodus 36:8; Leviticus 16:2
- 32 Exodus 26:37; Exodus 36:38; Esther 1:6
- 33 Hebrews 9:2–3; Leviticus 16:2; Exodus 40:21; Exodus 25:16; Genesis 9:4–5
- 34 Exodus 40:20; Exodus 25:21; Hebrews 9:5
- 35 Exodus 40:22; Exodus 40:24; Hebrews 9:2; Exodus 25:31–37; Hebrews 9:8–9
- 36 Exodus 36:37; John 14:6; Numbers 3:25; Psalm 78:60; Exodus 26:31
- 37 Exodus 36:38
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Again, they assert that the sun, the great light-giver, was formed on the fourth day, with a reference to the number of the Tetrad. So also, according to them, the courts of the tabernacle constructed by Moses, being composed of fine linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, pointed to the same image.
Among the rest, curtains of haircloth were ordered to be made not ten, but eleven; because by haircloth is signified the confession of sins.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
… assigned Saul the chief place among thirty guests; by David, when for thirty days he concealed himself in the field; by those who entered along with him into the cave; also by the fact that the length (height) of the holy tabernacle was thirty cubits; and if they meet with any other like numbers, they still apply these to their …
They have carefully enumerated the curtains as being ten, declaring these a type of the ten Æons; but they have forgotten to count the coverings of skin, which were eleven in number.