You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
Parallel translations
- WEB “You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
- KJV And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
- NKJV “You shall also make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side there shall be hangings for the court made of fine woven linen, one hundred cubits long for one side.
- NASB “Now you shall make the courtyard of the tabernacle. On the south side there shall be hangings for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for one side;
- NLT “Then make the courtyard for the Tabernacle, enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side, make the curtains 150 feet long.
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A surrounding court was to be made, with linen hangings one hundred cubits long on the south side. This enclosed the sacred space of the tabernacle.
Overview
The courtyard, screened by white linen hangings, set apart the holy precinct from the common camp around it. The barrier marked the boundary between the holy and the ordinary. The fine white linen, often associated with righteousness (Revelation 19:8), suggests that entrance into God's presence requires a holiness ultimately supplied by Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 38:9–20Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,
- Ezek 42:3Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
- Ezek 40:20He also measured the length and width of the gateway of the outer court facing north.
- 1 Kgs 8:64On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
- Ezek 40:23There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured the distance from gateway to gateway to be a hundred cubits.
- 2 Chr 33:5In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
- Exod 26:31–37Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
- Exod 39:40the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases; the curtain for the gate of the courtyard, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting;
- Ezek 40:28Next he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements as the others.
- Exod 36:17He 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.
- Exod 40:8Set up the surrounding courtyard and hang the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard.
- Ps 84:10For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
- Ezek 42:19–20And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.
- Ezek 40:14Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.
- Ezek 46:20–24and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
- Ezek 40:32And he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others.
- Ps 116:19in the courts of the LORD’s house, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah!
- Ps 92:13Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
- Ps 100:4Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
- Ezek 40:44Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two chambers, one beside the north gate and facing south, and another beside the south gate and facing north.
- 1 Kgs 6:36Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
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