_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._ Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains. Leading, as the Israelites did, a wandering life in the Sinaitic wilderness, no... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT MAKE LOOPS OF BLUE UPON THE EDGE OF THE ONE CURTAIN FROM THE SELVEDGE IN THE COUPLING; AND LIKEWISE SHALT THOU MAKE IN THE UTTERMOST EDGE OF ANOTHER CURTAIN, IN THE COUPLING OF THE SECOND._ Loops - х_ LUL'OT_ (H3924); Septuagint, angkulai]. UPON THE EDGE, х_ `AL_ (H5921) _ SªPAT_... [ Continue Reading ]
_FIFTY LOOPS SHALT THOU MAKE IN THE ONE CURTAIN, AND FIFTY LOOPS SHALT THOU MAKE IN THE EDGE OF THE CURTAIN THAT IS IN THE COUPLING OF THE SECOND; THAT THE LOOPS MAY TAKE HOLD ONE OF ANOTHER._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT MAKE CURTAINS OF GOATS' HAIR TO BE A COVERING UPON THE TABERNACLE: ELEVEN CURTAINS SHALT THOU MAKE._ Thou shalt make curtains of goat's hair. This after being spun (Exodus 35:26) was woven into a coarse kind of stuff resembling camlet, and used in the East as a material of common te... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT MAKE BOARDS FOR THE TABERNACLE OF SHITTIM WOOD STANDING UP._ Boards ... of shittim wood standing up. These boards, made of acacia wood (see the note at Exodus 25:15), covered with gold, were to be formed each ten cubits in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth [Nothing is said a... [ Continue Reading ]
_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:_ A veil ... This veil, which was embroidered in the same way as the inner covering on the roof of the tabernacle, was suspended on four pillars of acacia wood, overl... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT PUT THE MERCY SEAT UPON THE ARK OF THE TESTIMONY IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ An hanging for the door of the tent. Curtains of rich and elaborate embroidery, made by the female inmates, are suspended over the doors or entrances of the t... [ Continue Reading ]