KJV King James Version
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.
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Exodus 26:36
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.
WEB World English Bible
“You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
ASV American Standard Version
And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘And thou hast made a covering for the opening of the tent, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, work of an embroiderer;
Surrounding context — Exodus 26
33 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.
34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy [place].
35 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.
36 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.
37 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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְעָשִׂ֤יתָH6213 · a.sahto make: doמָסָךְ֙H4539 · ma.sakhcoveringלְפֶ֣תַחH6607 · pe.tachentranceהָאֹ֔הֶלH168 · o.heltentתְּכֵ֧לֶתH8504 · te.khe.letblueוְאַרְגָּמָ֛ןH713 · ar.ga.manpurpleוְתוֹלַ֥עַתH8438 · to.lawormשָׁנִ֖יH8144 · sha.niscarletוְשֵׁ֣שׁH8336 · sheshalabasterמָשְׁזָ֑רH7806 · sha.zarto twistמַעֲשֵׂ֖הH4639 · ma.a.sehdeed: workרֹקֵֽם׃H7551 · ra.qamto weave
Cross-references
Exodus 36:37And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;Numbers 9:15And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, [namely], the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.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 40:28-29And he set up the hanging [at] the door of the tabernacle.Numbers 3:25And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation [shall be] the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,Psalm 78:60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.Exodus 39:33And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,John 10:9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.Exodus 35:11The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,2 Samuel 7:6Whereas I have not dwelt in [any] house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
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