Exodus 27:9

And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.

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In The King James Version

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:

In Context

8The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

10Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:31And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman:

Exodus 36:17And they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group,

Exodus 39:40The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting;

Numbers 3:26And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use.

Numbers 4:32And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name.

1 Kings 8:64The same day the king made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering there the burned offering and the meal offering and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar of the Lord for the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 27:2-9

The Tabernacle and Its Furniture. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits. 2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. 3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make… Read the whole commentary →

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