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Exodus 26:2
Exodus 26:2 is verse 2 of Exodus chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide —all curtains the same size.
Each of the ten curtains was approximately 42 feet long and 6 feet wide (12.8 meters long and 1.8 meters wide).
King James Version
The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
World English Bible
The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
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Exodus 26:1–4 · 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.
4 Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 26:7You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.
Exodus 26:8Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
Numbers 4:25They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting with the covering of fine leather over it, the curtains for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
2 Samuel 7:2he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
1 Chronicles 17:1After 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.”