Exodus 27:16

The courtyard gate must be a curtain twenty cubits long. The curtain must be made of blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. It must have four posts with four bases.

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In The King James Version

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

15The other side must also have hangings fifteen cubits long. They must have their three posts and three bases.

17All the courtyard posts must have silver rods, silver hooks, and bronze bases.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:36You must make a hanging for the tent entrance. You must make it out of blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer.

Exodus 36:37He made a hanging for the tent entrance. It was made of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, using fine linen, the work of an embroiderer.

Judges 5:30'Have they not found and divided up the plunder? 1 —A womb, two wombs for every man; 1 the plunder of dyed fabric for Sisera, 1 the plunder of dyed fabric embroidered, 1 two pieces of dyed fabric embroidered for the necks of those who plunder?' 1

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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