KJV King James Version
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.
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Exodus 26:2
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.
WEB World English Bible
The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
ASV American Standard Version
The length of each curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
the length of the one curtain is eight and twenty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit, one measure is to all the curtains;
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.
5 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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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֹ֣רֶךְ׀H753 · o.rekhlengthהַיְרִיעָ֣הH3407 · ye.ri.ahcurtainהָֽאַחַ֗תH259 · e.chadoneשְׁמֹנֶ֤הH8083 · she.mo.neheightוְעֶשְׂרִים֙H6242 · es.rimtwentyבָּֽאַמָּ֔הH520 · am.mahcubitוְרֹ֙חַב֙H7341 · ro.chavwidthאַרְבַּ֣עH702 · ar.bafourבָּאַמָּ֔הH520 · am.mahcubitהַיְרִיעָ֖הH3407 · ye.ri.ahcurtainהָאֶחָ֑תH259 · e.chadoneמִדָּ֥הH4060 · mid.dahmeasureאַחַ֖תH259 · e.chadoneלְכָל־H3605 · kolallהַיְרִיעֹֽת׃H3407 · ye.ri.ahcurtain
Cross-references
Numbers 4:25And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers’ skins that [is] above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,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.2 Samuel 7:2That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.Exodus 26:7-8And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats’ [hair] to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
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