The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height along the width was five cubits, like the hangings of the court.
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The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height along the width was five cubits, like the hangings of the court.
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And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
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And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the weaver in colours, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
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Passages linked to Exodus 38:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 3:14 He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, over against.
Hebrew, over against.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The height relates to its standing or hanging upright,…
The height relates to its standing or hanging upright, and the
breadth relates to the hanging itself, and the height of the hanging was taken in the breadth.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the height in the breadth--or, "in the measure." The…
the height in the breadth--or, "in the measure." The sense is that the hangings of the court gate, which was twenty cubits wide, were of the same height as the hangings all round the court [WALL].
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18, 19. The screen for the gate of the…
18, 19. The screen for the gate of the Court. V. 18a=Exo_27:16 a; v. 18b (‘the height,’ &c.) inferred from Exo_27:18 (‘answerable to’ = corresponding to; cf. in RV. Eze_40:18; Eze_45:7; Eze_48:13; Eze_48:18; and see DB. s.v. Answer). V. 19a =Exo_27:16 b; v.19b their hooks of silver inferred from Exo_27:17 b; the ‘chapiters’ and ‘fillets’ not mentioned in Exo_27:16 (cf. above, on v. 17), only the silver fillets implied in Exo_27:17 a.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The height in the breadth was five cubits. The…
The height in the breadth was five cubits. The height of the hangings all round the court was required to be five cubits, or seven and a half feet. (Exo_27:18) It appears by the expression here used the breadth that the material was woven of exactly this width.
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