coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. He made both corners in this way.
Parallel translations
- WEB They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.
- KJV And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
- NKJV And they were coupled at the bottom and coupled together at the top by one ring. Thus he made both of them for the two corners.
- NASB They were double beneath, and together they were complete to its top, to the first ring; he did this with both of them for the two corners.
- NLT These corner frames were matched at the bottom and firmly attached at the top with a single ring, forming a single corner unit. Both of these corner units were made the same way.
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Quick answer
The corner boards were doubled from bottom to top and joined at a single ring, binding the walls firmly together. This made the corners strong and unified.
Overview
The careful coupling at the corners gave the portable structure rigidity and permanence in form. The repeated joining 'to one ring' continues the tabernacle's theme of unity. The construction matches the instruction of Exodus 26:24.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Acts 2:46With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
- Acts 4:32The multitude of believers was one in heart and soul. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they owned.
- Eph 3:18–19will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
- 2 Cor 1:10He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
- Eph 2:19Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
- Eph 4:2–6with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
- 1 Cor 1:10I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.
- Exod 26:24coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.
- Ps 133:1A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!
- Ps 122:3Jerusalem is built up as a city united together,
- 1 Cor 12:13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
- Eph 2:15by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
- Eph 2:21In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
- Eph 4:15–16Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
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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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