Exodus 26
Exodus 26:1 “Further instructions: you should make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you should make them with cherubs skillfully embedded into them.
Exodus 26:2 The length of each curtain should be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains will be the same size.
Exodus 26:3 Five curtains should be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains should be coupled to one another.
Exodus 26:4 And you should make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise, you should make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.
Exodus 26:5 You should make fifty loops on one curtain, and you should make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops will be opposite one another.
Exodus 26:6 And you should make fifty clasps of gold and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole.
Exodus 26:7 “You should also make curtains of goats’ hair for a tarp over the tabernacle; you should make eleven such curtains.
Exodus 26:8 The length of each curtain should be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains should be the same size.
Exodus 26:9 You should couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you should double over at the front of the tent.
Exodus 26:10 You should make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.
Exodus 26:11 “You should make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be a single whole.
Exodus 26:12 And the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, will hang over the back of the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:13 And the extra that remains in the length of the curtains, the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, should hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it.
Exodus 26:14 And you should make for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and a covering of goatskins on top.
Exodus 26:15 “You should make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
Exodus 26:16 Ten cubits should be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.
Exodus 26:17 There should be two hand holds in each frame, for fitting together. You should do this for all the frames of the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:18 You should make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side;
Exodus 26:19 and you should make forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two hand holds, and two bases under the next frame for its two hand holds;
Exodus 26:20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames,
Exodus 26:21 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under the next frame.
Exodus 26:22 And for the rear of the tabernacle westward you should make six frames.
Exodus 26:23 And you should make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear;
Exodus 26:24 they should be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring. It should be like this with both of them; they should form the two corners.
Exodus 26:25 And there should be eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame.
Exodus 26:26 “You should make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 26:27 and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward.
Exodus 26:28 The middle bar, halfway up the frames, should run through it from end to end.
Exodus 26:29 You should overlay the frames with gold and should make their rings of gold for houses for the bars, and you should overlay the bars with gold.
Exodus 26:30 Then you should erect the tabernacle according to the judgment for it that you were shown on the mountain.
Exodus 26:31 “And you should make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It should be made with cherubs skillfully worked into it.
Exodus 26:32 And you should hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with hooks of gold, on four bases of silver.
Exodus 26:33 And you should hang the veil from the clasps and bring the ark of the reminder in there inside the veil. And the veil should separate for you the Sacred Place from the Most Sacred.
Exodus 26:34 You should put the atonement cover on the ark of the reminder in the Most Sacred Place.
Exodus 26:35 And you should set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table, and you should put the table on the north side.
Exodus 26:36 “You should make a screen door for the entrance of the tent, out of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework.
Exodus 26:37 And you should make for the screen door five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold. Their hooks should be made of gold, and you should cast five bases of bronze for them.
Exodus 26 quotes:
“The Golden Candlestick was the next article to be made after the Table of Shewbread. It was positioned immediately opposite the Golden Table on the South side of the Holy Place in the Sanctuary (Exodus 26:35 and 40:4, 24).When we think of a Candlestick we usually think of burning candles. This is not the case here. The Golden Candlestick was more particularly a Lampstand upon which were seven lighted lamps. This was a Candlestick having oil lamps not candles. Candles burn by self-consumption, while lamps burn by the continual supply of oil being poured into them.”
Conner, Kevin J. The Tabernacle of Moses. Bible Temple Pub., 1975. p. 41.
“As with any other building, the foundation blueprints and building structure of the tabernacle must be viewed as a unit because the building structure is dependent upon the foundation’s support. The instructions for the structural design and materials are recorded in Exodus 26:15-30, while Exodus 36:20-34 describes the construction of the components.”
Cooper, Carl. Two Covenants: The Wilderness Tabernacle is a Shadow of the Heavenly Tabernacle. Companion Press, 1993. p. 29.
” The silver was from the atonement money; everything else in the Tabernacle came from the freewill offering. Every man 20 years and older had to contribute (30:11-16). It represented redemption. Rich and poor alike had to pay. The price of redemption was the same for all. At other times, men.”
Small, P. Douglas. Principles of Worship : A Study of the Tabernacle of Moses. Revised, Alive Publications, 2013. p. 186.
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