Exodus 26
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Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.

the tabernacle with ten curtains. The word mishcan, from shachan, to dwell, means simply a dwelling-place, or habitation. 'When God had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt,' says the very learned Dr. Cudworth,' resolving to manifest himself in a peculiar manner present among them, he thought good to dwell amongst them in a visible and external manner; and therefore, while they were in the wilderness, and sojourned in tents, he would have a tent or tabernacle built, to sojourn with them also. Now, the tabernacle being thus a house for God to dwell in visibly, to make up the notion of dwelling or habitation complete, there must be all things suitable to a house belonging to it. Hence, in the holy place, there must be a table and a candlestick, because these were the ordinary furniture of a room. The table must have its dishes, and spoons, and bowls, and covers, belonging to it, though they were never used; and always be furnished with bread upon it. The candlestick must have its lamps continually burning.'

Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 36:8-19 And every wise hearted man among them that worked the work of the …

Exodus 40:2,17-19 On the first day of the first month shall you set up the tabernacle …

1 Chronicles 17:1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to …

1 Chronicles 21:29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, …

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory…

John 2:21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Hebrews 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the …

Hebrews 9:9,23,24 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered …

Revelation 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle …

fine twined linen

Exodus 25:36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall …

Exodus 25:4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

Exodus 35:6,35 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair…

Revelation 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, …

cherubims

Exodus 25:18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shall you …

cunning work. Heb. the work of a cunning workman, or embroiderer

The 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.
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.

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And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
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.
And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth 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.

a cubit

Exodus 26:2,8 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the …

of that which remaineth. Heb. in the remainder or surplusage

And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.

a covering

Exodus 36:19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and …

Numbers 4:5 And when the camp sets forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and …

Psalm 27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the …

Psalm 121:4,5 Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep…

Isaiah 4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from …

Isaiah 25:4 For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy …

rams' skins dyed red. Oroth ailim meoddamim, literally, the skins of red rams. It is a fact, attested by many respectable travellers, that in the Levant, sheep are often met with having red or violet coloured fleeces. Almost all ancient writers speak of the same thing.

Exodus 26:5 Fifty loops shall you make in the one curtain…

Exodus 35:7,23 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood…

Exodus 39:34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' …

Numbers 4:10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering …

Ezekiel 16:10 I clothed you also with broidered work, and shod you with badgers' …

badgers' skins. Oroth techashim, which nearly all the ancient versions have taken to be the name of a colour, though they differ very much with regard to the particular colour intended: the LXX, Vulgate, and Coptic, have skins dyed of a violet colour; the Syriac, azure; and the Arabic, black; and Bochart contends for the hysginus, a very deep blue. It may, however, denote an animal; for Dr. Geddes remarks, had the sacred writer meant to express only a variety of colour, he would hardly have repeated oroth??, skins, after meoddamim, red, in ch

Exodus 25:5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

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Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

tenons Heb. hands

And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

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And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:

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And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

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And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

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And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

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And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.

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And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.

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And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:

a vail of

Exodus 36:35 And he made a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined …

Exodus 40:3,21 And you shall put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the …

Leviticus 16:2,15 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother…

2 Chronicles 3:14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, …

Matthew 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top …

Mark 15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom.

Luke 23:45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the middle.

Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the …

Hebrews 9:3-8 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all…

Hebrews 10:20,21 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through …

blue

Exodus 25:4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

Exodus 35:6,25,35 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair…

Exodus 36:8 And every wise hearted man among them that worked the work of the …

purple. Argaman, a very precious colour, extracted from the purpura, or murex, a species of shell-fish; and supposed to be the same with the costly and much celebrated Tyrian purple. scarlet. Tolaath; property the worm whence the scarlet colour was produced; which grew in a coccus, or excrescence, of a shrub of the ilex kind, like the cochineal worm in the Opuntia of America; which is arranged under the same genus as the Arabic Kermez, which also denotes this colour. cunning work.

Exodus 26:1 Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine …

Exodus 28:15 And you shall make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; …

Exodus 38:23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, …

2 Chronicles 2:7-13 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, …

Psalm 137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

Songs 7:1 How beautiful are your feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the …

cherubims shall it be made

Exodus 25:18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shall you …

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

pillars of shittim

Exodus 26:37 And you shall make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, …

Exodus 36:38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their …

Esther 1:6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords …

their hooks shall be of gold. The Hebrew waaveyhem, which we translate their hooks, is rendered by the LXX, and by the Vulgate. Hence Calmet contends That is Moses does not mean the capitals of the pillars by this word, he mentions them nowhere else; and it would seem strange, that while he describes them with so much exactness, that he should not mention the capitals; or that pillars every way so correctly formed, should have been destitute of this necessary ornament. As Moses was commanded to make the wavim of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver, and the wavim of the pillars of the vail of gold and that

And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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