Exodus 27:16

And 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.

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And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

In Context

15And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.

17All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:36And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.

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;

Judges 5:30Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?

Matthew Henry on Exodus 27:10-20

9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of… Read the whole commentary →

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