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Exodus 26:6
Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God gives Moses construction commands for the sanctuary's inner covering during the wilderness tabernacle project.
The words — קַרְסֵי זָהָב (karsei zahav) translates literally as "gold hooks" or "gold clasps," and חִבַּרְתָּ (chibarta) means "you will join" or "you will fasten together."
The thread — The clasping mechanism for structural unity appears again in Exodus 26:11 with bronze clasps for the outer tent, Exodus 26:33 where clasps secure the separating veil, and Exodus 35:11 listing clasps among the tabernacle's required parts.
Why it lands — The passage commands the builder to fasten fifty individual panels into a single functional structure, demanding precise material application and exact alignment to produce unity.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
Cross-references
- Exodus 26:11 Make fifty bronze clasps and put them through the loops to join the tent together as a unit.
- 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.
- Exodus 35:11 the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;
- Exodus 36:13 He also made fifty gold clasps to join the curtains together, so that the tabernacle was a unit.
- Exodus 36:18 He also made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as a unit.
- 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;
- Ephesians 1:22 And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
- Ephesians 4:16 From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
- 1 Peter 2:4 As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,