Exodus 26:36

And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

35And outside the veil you are to put the table, and the support for the lights opposite the table on the south side of the House; and the table is to be on the north side.

37And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass

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Cross References

Exodus 27:16And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases.

Exodus 35:11The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;

Exodus 36:37And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red;

Exodus 40:5And put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of the ark of the law, hanging the curtain over the doorway of the House.

Numbers 3:25In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting,

2 Samuel 7:6For from the day when I took the children of Israel up out of Egypt till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from place to place in a tent.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 26:32-37

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: 32 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. 33 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. 34 And thou shalt put the mercy… Read the whole commentary →

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