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.
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.
- BSB coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. He made both corners in this way.
- 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 2:46Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
- Acts 4:32The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
- Eph 3:18–19may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
- 2 Cor 1:10who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
- Eph 2:19So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
- Eph 4:2–6with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
- 1 Cor 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- Exod 26:24They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
- Ps 133:1A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
- Ps 122:3Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;
- 1 Cor 12:13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
- Eph 2:15having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;
- Eph 2:21in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
- Eph 4:15–16but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
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