The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; and the eleven curtains shall all have the same measurements.
Parallel translations
- WEB The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
- KJV The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.
- BSB Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
- NASB The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have the same measurements.
- NLT These eleven curtains must all be exactly the same size—45 feet long and 6 feet wide.
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Quick answer
Each goats'-hair curtain was thirty cubits long and four wide, all of one measure. The eleven uniform curtains made the outer tent slightly larger than the inner one.
Overview
Being longer than the linen curtains, these coverings extended further to fully protect the tabernacle. Their uniform measure again shows the ordered precision of the whole design. The greater length, allowing the tent to overhang and shelter what lay beneath, pictures God's protective covering over His holy dwelling.
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Cross-references · 2
- Exod 26:13The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
- Exod 26:2The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
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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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