Bible Strands
Exodus 26:33
And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — God issues construction directives to Moses during the wilderness tabernacle building sequence.
The words — הַ/פָּרֹכֶת (ha./pa.ro.Khet) identifies the woven curtain or veil, and תַּ֣חַת (Ta.chat) literally means "under," specifying its mounting point relative to the metal hooks.
The thread — The text reappears in Exodus 40:21 when the veil is physically erected to shield the ark, and in Leviticus 16:2 when God restricts Aaron’s entry behind it.
Why it lands — The verse establishes a fixed architectural boundary that defines access to the innermost sanctuary, requiring the reader to recognize the precise physical separation between sacred zones.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Hebrew words
King James Version
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Cross-references
- Exodus 40:21 Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.
- Leviticus 16:2 And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
- Hebrews 9:2 A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
- Exodus 25:16 And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.
- Genesis 9:4 But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
- Exodus 27:10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
- Exodus 36:36 He also made four posts of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold, along with gold hooks; and he cast four silver bases for the posts.
- 1 Kings 8:6 Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
- 1 Kings 8:10 And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD
- 2 Chronicles 5:7 Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.