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Exodus 26:36
For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God issues construction commands to Moses and the Israelites for assembling the wilderness tabernacle, specifying the exact materials for the tent's entrance covering.
The words — The Hebrew מָסָךְ (ma.soKh) translates literally as a "screen" or curtain, while תְּכֵלֶת (te.Khe.let), אַרְגָּמָן ('ar.ga.Man), and תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי (to.La.'at sha.Ni) name the required dyed threads: violet, purple, and scarlet.
The thread — This entrance covering shares its identical material composition with the inner veil in Exodus 26:31 and is later recorded as completed in Exodus 36:37.
Why it lands — The text commands the builder to fabricate the entrance curtain using only the specified blue, purple, scarlet, and linen threads, leaving no room for material substitution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Exodus 36:37 For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen,
- Exodus 26:31 Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
- Exodus 35:11 the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;
- Exodus 39:33 Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and bases;
- Exodus 40:28 Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
- Numbers 3:25 The duties of the Gershonites at the Tent of Meeting were the tabernacle and tent, its covering, the curtain for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
- Numbers 9:15 On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
- 2 Samuel 7:6 For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved about with a tent as My dwelling.
- Psalms 78:60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
- John 10:9 I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.