Exodus 26:2

Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.

Majority Standard Bible

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

1“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.

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

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Cross References

Exodus 26:7You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

2 Samuel 7:2he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in 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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