Exodus 26:2

Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.

3Five curtains are to be joined together, and the other five are to be joined together.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:7And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains.

2 Samuel 7:2The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 26:2-7

The Tabernacle and Its Furniture. ( b. c. 1491.) 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. 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. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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