Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be a unit.
- KJV And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
- NKJV And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps, so that it may be one tabernacle.
- NASB You shall also make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
- NLT Then make fifty gold clasps and fasten the long curtains together with the clasps. In this way, the Tabernacle will be made of one continuous piece.
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Quick answer
Fifty gold clasps joined the two curtain sets so that the tabernacle became one unit. The unity of the structure was an essential part of its design.
Overview
The gold clasps fastened the loops, binding the curtains into a single covering — 'the tabernacle shall be a unit.' This repeated emphasis on oneness reflects that God dwells in a unified house among a unified people. The picture anticipates the church, joined together in Christ into one holy temple (Ephesians 2:21-22).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Exod 26:33And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
- 1 Pet 2:4–5As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
- Eph 4:16From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
- Exod 36:13He also made fifty gold clasps to join the curtains together, so that the tabernacle was a unit.
- Exod 26:11Make fifty bronze clasps and put them through the loops to join the tent together as a unit.
- Exod 36:18He also made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as a unit.
- Eph 1:22–23And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
- Exod 35:11the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;
- Exod 39:33Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and bases;
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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