KJV King James Version
And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
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Exodus 26:6
And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
WEB World English Bible
You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be a unit.
ASV American Standard Version
And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be one whole.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and thou hast made fifty hooks of gold, and hast joined the curtains one to another by the hooks, and the tabernacle hath been one.
Surrounding context — Exodus 26
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.
6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
7 And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats’ [hair] to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
8 The length of one curtain [shall be] thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains [shall be all] of one measure.
9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְעָשִׂ֕יתָH6213 · a.sahto make: doחֲמִשִּׁ֖יםH2572 · cha.mish.shimfiftyקַרְסֵ֣יH7165 · qe.resclaspזָהָ֑בH2091 · za.havgoldוְחִבַּרְתָּ֨H2266 · cha.varto uniteאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַיְרִיעֹ֜תH3407 · ye.ri.ahcurtainאִשָּׁ֤הH802 · ish.shahwomanאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)אֲחֹתָהּ֙H269 · a.chotsisterבַּקְּרָסִ֔יםH7165 · qe.resclaspוְהָיָ֥הH1961 · ha.yahto beהַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ןH4908 · mish.kantabernacleאֶחָֽד׃ פH259 · e.chadone
Cross-references
Exodus 26:11And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.Exodus 26:33And 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.Exodus 36:18And he made fifty taches [of] brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.Ephesians 1:22-23And hath put all [things] under his feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church,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,Exodus 35:11The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,1 Peter 2:4-5To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,Exodus 36:13And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.Ephesians 4:16From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
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