* Chron. tera | which was ſbewed thee in the mount.
28:19: C H A P. XXVI.
At: 7.44- Moſes is commanded to make the Tabernacle with ten curtains, 7. The length 8.5.
Heb. 8. and breadth of the curtains, 2. The form of the curtains, 3---6. He 1s t Heb. commanded to make eleven curtains of goats hair, 7: The manner of tne
bich thou - making and placing it, 8-=—=i 4. Of what the Tabernacle is to be made,
aft cauſed 15. The manner of its making, with other utenſils, 16 -—- 30. Of
Jee. the vail, and what it is to be madeof, 31. The jajhion of it, 32, 33-The hanging for the tent-door,36. 7
A AN Oreover, * thou ſhalt mzke the tabernacle a irb
. . ten curtains of | fine twined linen, and blew, and en. the purple, and ſcarlet b: with cherubims F of cunning
rkof © ay work c ſhalt thou make them. man s Or, Tent; a little Houſe wherein the Ark, Table and Candle-
embroj= Mick were to be placed. 6 (7.e. ) With materials of theſe colours, er, to wit, Wool, as may be gathered from hence, that it is oppoled to Linen. Compare Exod: 25. 4. © Either woven, or rather wrought with Needle, wherein is moſt «kill and curio'ity.
2 The length of one curtain ſhe be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one courtain four cubits : andeveryone of the courtains ſhall have one meaſure. Heb:the 2 The fivecurtains ſhall be coupled rogether F one , rm E to another, and orher five curtains fha//be coupled one to
another. | 4 And thou ſhalt make loops «of blue upon the edg: of the one curtain, from theſelvedge e in the coupling f: and likewiſe g (halt thou makein the uttermoſt edge oi azother curtain, in the coupling of the ſecond. d Which together with the Taches were for the joyning the Cur- ; tains together, as appears from verſe 17, which way of conjunttio!) X was moſt convenient for the often taking them down, and ſetting them up. e Or from, or in the extremity, or. end, or edge. Heb. lip. F(5: e: ). Inthe place where the two curtains are coupled together. £ The ſecond Curtain is to be made exaRly like rhe firit.
5 Fifty loops ſhalt thou make in. the one curtain,and fifty loops ſbalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that 5s in the coupling of the ſecond ; that the loops may take hold one of another.
6 And thou fbalt make bfty taches of gold, and cou- 'Þle the curtains together with the taches þ : and it ſhall
one Tabernacle.
hþ Or hooks or buttons, which were put into the loops to unite and
faſten the Curtains. ; 7 7 14 And thou ſbalt makecurtains of goats hair to be
2 covering kupon the tabernacle : cleven curtains ſbalc
thou make. ; Spun, Exod: 35: 26. and woven into a ſtuff, like our Camſet
k To be put next above the Curtains.
8 And thelength of one curtain ſhall be thirty cubits, and the breadthof one curtain four cubits: and the e-
even curtains ſhall be all of one meaſure. :
9 And thou (halt couple five curtains by themielves, and fix curtains by themſelves, and ſhalt double the lixti curtain ] in the forefront of the rabernacie»
1 For the better ſecurity of the inward covering.
x0 And thou tbalc make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmoftin the coupling, and fif- ty loops in the edge of the curtain which couplerh the ſecond. |
1x: And thou ſhalt make fifty taches of braſs, and put + Or, o- the taches into theloops, and couple the * tent together, wering: thatitmay be one. 12 Andthe remaant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth ſhall hang over the ſide of the tabernacle. 13 Anda cubit ontheone ſide, and the cubit on the + Heb: in other ſide + of that which remaineth in che length of the [phe re- curtains of the tent, it ſhall hang over the ſides of the ee 2" tabernacle on this fide, and onthat fide to cover it. , 5. 14 Andthou ſhalt make a covering for the tent of rams skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers Skins . ' |
m To preſervethe reſt from the injury of the Weather. |
is qo And thou ſhalt make boards for the rabernacle of ſhittim-wood ſtanding up.
16 Tencubits ſhall be the length of a board, anda cu- bit and a half ſhall be the breadth of one beard.
17 Two ftenons » ſhall there be in one board, fet in order one againft another : thus ſhalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. f
» Heb. hands, (7: e: ) parts of the boards fo cut and framed, that like hands they may take bold of, and be faſtned into the ſockers, ;
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o Or baſes, or pedeſtals, or feet, upon which the boargs ſtood and to which they were faſtned. :
20 And for the ſecond ſide of the tabernacle, an the north-ſide there ſhall be twenty 2oards,
21 And their fourty ſockets of ſilver : two fockets un- der one board, and two ſockets under another board.
22 Andfor the ſides of the tabernacle weſtward thoy ſhalt make fix boards.
23 And two boards fhaltthou make for the corners
of the tabernacle in the two ſides.
Which were of another faſhion than the former,as may be ga« thered both from the diſtin nomination and uſe of them, and fon: the Laws of building. And whereas the reſt were but ſingle boa: ds theſe »e-e double for greater ſtrength and conveniency of joyning them together.
unto one ring 7: thus shall it be for them beth, they (hall be for the two corners,
q Heb. as twins, 7. e: equal and equally joyned together, and ex attiy anſwering one to the other. 7 Wiickring _ exattly in ho corner, and with the help of the bars kept the corner-boards, and with them the other boards of the Tabernacle cloſe together. But you muſt note, that here were two rings in each corner, the one in the upper, the other in the lower parts.
25 And they ſhall be eight boards, and their ſockets of ſilver ſixteen ſockets : two ſockets under one board and two ſockets under another board, ; ' 26 F And thou ſhalt make bars « of shittim-weod : hve for the boards cf the one fide of the tabernacle
s By bars you may undecſtand either 1. ſeveral rows or artery of bars, one bar beginning at the end of the other, and each conrain- ng 4 cubirs.in length, and allt-gether 20 cubits, which was the iength of the Tabernacle; or 2. ſingle bars, which ſeem truer x be « cauſe the word ſignifies bars, not rows of bars ; and why ſhou'd we