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Exodus 26:7
You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God issues construction instructions to Moses during the Sinai wilderness journey, specifying the layered coverings for the portable sanctuary.
The words — יְרִיעֹת (ye.ri.'Ot) denotes the tent curtains, and עִזִּים ('i.Zim) specifies the goat hair material required for their construction.
The thread — This material appears in the sanctuary inventory (Exodus 25:4), immediately precedes the ten linen curtains (Exodus 26:1), and sits between the inner curtains and the outer ram and leather coverings (Exodus 26:14).
Why it lands — The text commands the exact quantity and material for a structural layer, requiring precise compliance with the specified dimensions and placement rather than aesthetic preference.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Cross-references
- Exodus 26:14 Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.
- Exodus 25:4 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
- Exodus 26:1 “You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.
- Exodus 26:9 Join five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another. Then fold the sixth curtain over double at the front of the tent.
- Exodus 26:12 As for the overlap that remains of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over shall hang down over the back of the tabernacle.
- Exodus 35:6 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
- Exodus 35:23 Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or articles of fine leather, brought them.
- Exodus 35:26 And all the skilled women whose hearts were stirred spun the goat hair.
- Exodus 36:14 He then made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.
- Numbers 4:25 They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting with the covering of fine leather over it, the curtains for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,