You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
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You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
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And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
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And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
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Passages linked to Exodus 26:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 26:3 Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
- Exodus 26:6 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a unit.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, hooks.
Or, hooks.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of…
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent,.... Of the goat hair curtains, which were one more than the linen curtains:
the half curtain that remaineth; for the other half extended to the east end of it, at the entrance of the tabernacle, and hung down and was doubled there, and the other that remained is here disposed of:
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shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle; the west end of it, where was the holy of holies; or rather, as Dr. Lightfoot (n) describes it, thus, it was when those curtains (of goats' hair) were laid upon the other over the tabernacle; they were not laid as these brazen loops (clasps it should be) did light just upon the golden ones over the vail, but three quarters of a yard more westward, so that the five curtains that went west did reach to the ground and half a curtain to spare, Exo 26:12 the other six that lay east reached to the end, covered the pillars whereon that vail hung, and they hung half a curtain's breadth or a yard over the entrance.
(n) Works, vol. 1. p. 719.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Taches of brass — Corresponding with the goats’…
11. Taches of brass — Corresponding with the goats’ hair, as gold with the fine linen. Exo_26:6.
Couple the tent together — So that the tent cloth or cover would be united by the coupling into one immense tent cloth after the manner of the tabernacle cloth as shown in Exo_26:6.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. brass] copper or bronze. Gold (v. 6) was…
11. brass] copper or bronze. Gold (v. 6) was confined to the clasps for the inner curtains, forming the Dwelling proper.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Fifty taches of brass. Rather "of bronze." The links…
Fifty taches of brass. Rather "of bronze." The links of the inner curtain were of gold (ver. 6).
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.