Exodus 26:12
 Exodus 26:12 
New International Version (©2011)
As for the additional length of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The remaining 3 feet of this tent covering will be left to hang over the back of the Tabernacle.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The overlapping part that is left over in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back of the tabernacle.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
As for the flap that is left over from the tent curtains, the leftover half curtain is to hang down over the back of the tabernacle.

International Standard Version (©2012)
As for the excess that remains of the curtains of the tent—the half curtain that remains—is to hang over the back of the tent.

NET Bible (©2006)
Now the part that remains of the curtains of the tent--the half curtain that remains will hang over at the back of the tabernacle.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The remaining half-sheet should hang over the back of the inner tent.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the remnant that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

American King James Version
And the remnant that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.

American Standard Version
And the overhanging part that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that which shall remain of the curtains, that are prepared for the roof, to wit, one curtain that is over and above, with the half thereof thou shalt cover the back parts of the tabernacle.

Darby Bible Translation
And that which remaineth hanging over of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the rear of the tabernacle.

English Revised Version
And the overhanging part that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.

World English Bible
The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

Young's Literal Translation
'And the superfluity in the curtains of the tent -- the half of the curtain which is superfluous -- hath spread over the hinder part of the tabernacle;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:7-14 The curtains of meaner materials, being made both longer and broader, covered the others, and were defended by coverings of skins. The whole represents the person and doctrine of Christ, and the church of true Christians, and all heavenly things, which outwardly are mean, but inwardly, and in the sight of God, are glorious and precious.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - The remnant which remaineth, etc. Both this and the next verse presume a very close connection between the fine linen covering of the mishkan and the goats hair tent-cloth which protected it. "The remnant that remaineth" is the half-breadth by which the tent-cloth would overlap the linen covering at the back of the tent, when at the front half of the eleventh breadth had been turned back upon the other half (see comment on ver. 9). This "remnant" was to be 'allowed to hang down over the back part of the tabernacle.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent,.... Of the goat hair curtains, which were one more than the linen curtains:

the half curtain that remaineth; for the other half extended to the east end of it, at the entrance of the tabernacle, and hung down and was doubled there, and the other that remained is here disposed of:

shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle; the west end of it, where was the holy of holies; or rather, as Dr. Lightfoot (n) describes it, thus, it was when those curtains (of goats' hair) were laid upon the other over the tabernacle; they were not laid as these brazen loops (clasps it should be) did light just upon the golden ones over the vail, but three quarters of a yard more westward, so that the five curtains that went west did reach to the ground and half a curtain to spare, Exodus 26:12 the other six that lay east reached to the end, covered the pillars whereon that vail hung, and they hung half a curtain's breadth or a yard over the entrance.

(n) Works, vol. 1. p. 719.


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The Eleven Curtains of Goats' Hair
11And you shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 12And the remnant that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle. 13And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remains 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.

Exodus 26:11 Then make fifty bronze clasps and put them in the loops to fasten the tent together as a unit.
Exodus 26:13 The tent curtains will be a cubit longer on both sides; what is left will hang over the sides of the tabernacle so as to cover it.