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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.
Exo 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.
Ver. 1. Thou shalt make the tabernacle. ] A type, (1.) Of Christ who "dwelt among us, full of grace and truth"; Joh 1:14 (2.) Of the Church built by Christ; 1Co 3:9 (3.) Of every true Christian. Eph 2:19-22
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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.
Exo 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.
Ver. 2. Of the curtains. ] Not, Of the tabernacles, as the vulgar interpreter hath it.
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The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
Exo 26:3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled one to another.
Ver. 3. Shall be coupled together. ] These curtains were coupled with loops; so should Christians by love. "My dove is but one: the daughters saw her and blessed her." Son 6:9 See Ephesians 2:21-22 ; Ephesians 4:16 .
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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.
Exo 26:4 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.
Ver. 4. Upon the edge of the one curtain. ] The coupling of these two great curtains together, to make one tabernacle, might signify that the saints both in heaven and earth do make but one Church. Ephesians 1:10 ; Eph 3:15
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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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And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
Exo 26:6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
Ver. 6. With the taches. ] So is "the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Eph 4:3
Shall be one tabernacle. ] See those many ones in Ephesians 4:3-5 , See Trapp on " Eph 4:3 " See Trapp on " Eph 4:4 " See Trapp on " Eph 4:5 "
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And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Exo 26:7 And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats’ [hair] to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Ver. 7. Of goats’ hair.] The tabernacle was goats’ hair without, and gold within. God hid his Son under the carpenter’s son. "The king’s daughter is all glorious within." Psa 45:13 And all her sons are princes in all lands. Psa 45:16 Howbeit, they must be content to pass to heaven as Christ their Head did, as concealed men. "Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew not him." Joh 1:10 "Our life is hid with Christ," Col 3:4 as the life of flowers in winter is hid in the root.
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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.
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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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And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
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And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
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And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
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And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
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And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
Exo 26:14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent [of] rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers’ skins.
Ver. 14. A covering for the tent. ] Shadowing out God’s protecting his people, Isaiah 4:6 ; Isa 25:4 Psa 27:5 as these rams’ skins covered the ark from the violence of wind and weather.
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And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
Exo 26:15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood standing up.
Ver. 15. Standing up. ] As pillars. "Him that overcometh will Christ make a pillar in God’s temple." Rev 3:12
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Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
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Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
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And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
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And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
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And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
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And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
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And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
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And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
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And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
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And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
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And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
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And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
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And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
Exo 26:28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
Ver. 28. And the middle bar in the midst of the boards. ] The fastening together of these boards thus with bars signified, saith an interpreter, the uniting of all the members together by one and the same Spirit in Christ: "from whom the whole body fitly joined together, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love." Eph 4:16
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And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
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And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
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And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
Exo 26:31 And thou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
Ver. 31. With cherubims. ] To note the special presence and attendance of the holy angels in the assemblies of the saints. Luke 1:11 Joh 1:51
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And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
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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.
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And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
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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.
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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.
Exo 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.
Ver. 36. A hanging for the door. ] This shadowed him that said of himself, "I am the door." Joh 10:9 The ceremonial law was the Jews’ gospel, for it was Christ in figure; and to him it led them.
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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.
Exo 26:37 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.
Ver. 37. Of shittim wood. ] This, say some, they might bring with them out of Egypt, for necessary uses. Others note that great store of it grew in the desert of Arabia.