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Exodus 26:16 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board. "
Exodus 26:16
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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.
And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
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.
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
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Exodus 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"
Exodus 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."
Exodus 26:3
"The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another."
Exodus 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."
Exodus 26:5
"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."
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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