Exodus Chapter 26 verse 7 Holy Bible
And thou shalt make curtains of goats' `hair' for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them.
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And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains.
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And thou shalt make curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them.
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And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
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And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
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"You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent: eleven curtains shall you make them.
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`And thou hast made curtains of goats' `hair', for a tent over the tabernacle; thou dost make eleven curtains:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - From the inner covering of the tabernacle the directions proceed to the external covering, or rather coverings, which constituted the real strength of the structure, and its protection from wet or stormy weather. Curtains of goats' hair, such as the Arabs still use, as the ordinary covering of their tents (Layard, Nin. and Bab., p. 171), were to form a true "tent" (ohel) above the tabernacle, being supported by tent-poles, and kept taut by means of cords and pegs (Exodus 27:19; Exodus 35:18). See the representation in Dr. W. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 3. p. 1454, which is reproduced in the Speaker's Commentary, vol. 1. p. 376. To be a covering. In Exodus 36:14, we have - "he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle," which is far better. The word used in both places is the same (ohel). Eleven curtains - i.e., "eleven breadths." Compare ver. 1.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers2. THE GOATS'-HAIR TENT-CLOTH.(7-13) An awning such as that described in Exodus 26:1-6 would have neither kept out sun nor rain. For this purpose an ordinary cloth of goats'-hair was requisite, and accordingly Moses was instructed to make a second covering, which was to be of this material, and to extend over the whole of the first, thus externally concealing it. This second covering was, like the first, to be in two portions (Exodus 26:9-11), each of them made up of several "breadths," but the two portions were not to be of the same size. Both were to be thirty cubits in length, but the hinder portion was to contain five "breadths," while the portion in front was to contain six. Thus the outer covering was six feet broader than the inner one. The object was the protection of the inner covering, which was overlapped at both ends by the outer one (Exodus 26:9; Exodus 26:12).(7) To be a covering.--Literally, to be a tent. (See the first Note on the chapter.)Eleven curtains--i.e., eleven breadths. (See Note 2 on Exodus 26:1.) . . .
