KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Exodus 26:1
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.
WEB World English Bible
“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.
ASV American Standard Version
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shalt thou make them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And thou dost make the tabernacle: ten curtains of twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet; with cherubs, work of a designer, thou dost make them;
Surrounding context — Exodus 26
1 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.
2 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.
3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled one to another.
4 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.
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וְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַמִּשְׁכָּ֥ןH4908 · mish.kantabernacleתַּעֲשֶׂ֖הH6213 · a.sahto make: doעֶ֣שֶׂרH6235 · e.sertenיְרִיעֹ֑תH3407 · ye.ri.ahcurtainשֵׁ֣שׁH8336 · sheshalabasterמָשְׁזָ֗רH7806 · sha.zarto twistוּתְכֵ֤לֶתH8504 · te.khe.letblueוְאַרְגָּמָן֙H713 · ar.ga.manpurpleוְתֹלַ֣עַתH8438 · to.lawormשָׁנִ֔יH8144 · sha.niscarletכְּרֻבִ֛יםH3742 · ke.ruvcherubמַעֲשֵׂ֥הH4639 · ma.a.sehdeed: workחֹשֵׁ֖בH2803 · cha.shavto devise: designתַּעֲשֶׂ֥הH6213 · a.sahto make: doאֹתָֽם׃H853 · et[Obj.]
Cross-references
Exodus 36:8-19And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubims of cunning work made he them.Exodus 26:36And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.Exodus 25:18And thou shalt make two cherubims [of] gold, [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.Exodus 26:31And thou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:Exodus 36:35And he made a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: [with] cherubims made he it of cunning work.Exodus 35:35Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, [even] of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.Exodus 25:8And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.Exodus 40:2On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.1 Chronicles 21:29For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, [were] at that season in the high place at Gibeon.Hebrews 9:9Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;John 2:21But he spake of the temple of his body.Revelation 19:8And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.Exodus 40:17-19And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first [day] of the month, [that] the tabernacle was reared up.1 Chronicles 17:1Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth] under curtains.Revelation 21:3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.Exodus 35:6And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ [hair],Hebrews 8:2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.Hebrews 9:23-24[It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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