Exodus 26:1

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Exodus 26:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

2 Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide —all curtains the same size.

3 Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five joined as well.

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Exodus 25:8

And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 36:8

All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Exodus 36:9

Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.

Exodus 36:10

And he joined five of the curtains together, and the other five he joined as well.

Exodus 36:11

He made loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and also on the end curtain in the second set.

Exodus 36:12

He made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops lined up opposite one another.

Exodus 36:13

He also made fifty gold clasps to join the curtains together, so that the tabernacle was a unit.

Exodus 36:14

He then made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

Exodus 36:15

Each of the eleven curtains was the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.

Exodus 36:16

He joined five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another.

Exodus 36:17

He made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.

Exodus 36:18

He also made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as a unit.

Exodus 36:19

Additionally, he made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.

Exodus 40:2

“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 40:17

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

Exodus 40:18

When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.

Exodus 40:19

Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, just as the LORD had commanded him.

1 Chronicles 17:1

After David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”

1 Chronicles 21:29

For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

John 1:14

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 2:21

But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.

Hebrews 8:2

and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.

Hebrews 9:9

It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

Hebrews 9:23

So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

Exodus 26:36

For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.

Exodus 25:4

blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

Exodus 35:6

blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

Exodus 35:35

He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and as weavers—as artistic designers of every kind of craft.

Revelation 19:8

She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints.

Exodus 25:18

Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,