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Exodus 36:18-21

He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit. He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up. Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

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He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains. The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure. He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling. He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit. He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up. Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board. Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way. He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward. He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part. They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners. There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets.

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Parallel Translations

  • WEB World English Bible

    He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.

    He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

    He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.

    Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

  • KJV King James Version

    And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

    And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.

    And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

    The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.

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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

    And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.

    And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up.

    Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

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Cross-references (7)

  • Exodus 25:5 (v20) rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
  • Exodus 25:10 (v20) “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its…
  • Exodus 26:14 (v19) You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
  • Exodus 26:15-29 (v20) “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a…
  • Exodus 40:18-19 (v20) Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. He spread the…
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  • Numbers 25:1 (v20) Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
  • Deuteronomy 10:3 (v20) So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.

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Explain this passage (7 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv19–20 These two were about the covering of goats’ hair.

These two were about the covering of goats’ hair.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v20 Verse 20. And he made boards] See Clarke on…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv19–20 19. sealskins] dugong skins (Exo_26:14); see on Exo_25:9.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv19–20 (19) This verse corresponds exactly to Exo_26:14, and relates…
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v20 i.e. acacia.
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain On v20 The Framework and the Veils
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv18, 20 Bezalel made ... to go above that
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