“Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven altogether. All eleven curtains are to be the same size(A)—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.[a] Join five of the curtains together into one set and the other six into another set. Fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent. 10 Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set. 11 Then make fifty bronze clasps and put them in the loops to fasten the tent together as a unit.(B) 12 As for the additional length of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle. 13 The tent curtains will be a cubit[b] longer on both sides; what is left will hang over the sides of the tabernacle so as to cover it. 14 Make for the tent a covering(C) of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable leather.[c](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 26:8 That is, about 45 feet long and 6 feet wide or about 13.5 meters long and 1.8 meters wide
  2. Exodus 26:13 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
  3. Exodus 26:14 Possibly the hides of large aquatic mammals (see 25:5)

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