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Exodus 36:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains. "
Exodus 36:14
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12 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another.
13 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.
15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
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Here, the curtains of goat hair, spread over the tabernacle, and the coverings of rams’ skins and badgers’ skins above them, point to the shelter and special protection God gives his church (Exodus 36:14-19). God has prepared for his people a shade from the heat and a refuge from storm and rain (Isaiah 4:6). They are guarded against every kind of weather, so the sun and moon will not strike them, and they are also protected from the storms of God’s judgment, that hail which will sweep away the false shelter of lies (Isaiah 28:17). Those who live in God’s house will find that, however fierce the storm or however steady the rain outside, it does not rain in.
The boards and bars that supported the curtains point to the church’s strength and stability, even though it is only a tabernacle, or a temporary tent (Exodus 36:20-34). The boards were fitted together, and the bars ran through them to hold them firm. In the same way, the church’s unity and the willing agreement of those who support it greatly add to its strength and settle it.
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Exodus 36:1
"“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD has commanded.”"
Exodus 36:2
"Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it."
Exodus 36:3
"They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning."
Exodus 36:4
"All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did."
Exodus 36:5
"They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make.”"
Exodus 36:6
"Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing."
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