Scripture · Old Testament
Exodus 36:9
Exodus 36:9 is verse 9 of Exodus chapter 36, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were 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 was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
World English Bible
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had 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.
Read in context
Exodus 36:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 since what they already had was more than enough to perform all the work.
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.
9 Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.
10 And he joined five of the curtains together, and the other five he joined as well.
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.
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