Exodus 26:3
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New International Version (©2011)
Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Join five of these curtains together to make one long curtain, then join the other five into a second long curtain.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Five curtains shall be joined to one another, and the other five curtains shall be joined to one another.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Five of the curtains should be joined together, and the other five curtains joined together.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five curtains are to be joined together.

NET Bible (©2006)
Five curtains are to be joined, one to another, and the other five curtains are to be joined, one to another.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Five of the sheets must be sewn together, and the other five must also be sewn together.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

American King James Version
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

American Standard Version
Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the other five shall be coupled together in like manner.

Darby Bible Translation
Five of the curtains shall be coupled one to another, and the other five curtains coupled one to another.

English Revised Version
Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

Webster's Bible Translation
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

World English Bible
Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

Young's Literal Translation
five of the curtains are joining one unto another, and five curtains are joining one to another.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:1-6 God manifested his presence among the Israelites in a tabernacle or tent, because of their condition in the wilderness. God suits the tokens of his favour, and the gifts of his grace, to his people's state and wants. The curtains of the tabernacle were to be very rich. They were to be embroidered with cherubim, signifying that the angels of God pitch their tents round about the church, Ps 34:7.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - When the ten "breadths" had been woven, five were to be sewn together to form one portion of the awning, and the other five to form another portion, the reason for this being, probably, that if all the ten breadths had been sewn together, the awning would have been too cumbrous to have been readily folded together, or easily conveyed when the people journeyed.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another,.... Five of the ten curtains were to be sewed together, and make as it were one curtain:

and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another: the other five were to be joined together in like manner, and so made two large pieces of tapestry of fourteen yards long and ten broad, according to the common account of a cubit, but were much longer and broader.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another, &c.—so as to form two grand divisions, each eleven yards wide.

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The Ten Curtains of the Tabernacle
1Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of cunning work shall you make them. 2The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure. 3The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. …

Exodus 26:2 All the curtains are to be the same size--twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.
Exodus 26:4 Make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and do the same with the end curtain in the other set.