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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Exodus 26

Exodus 26:1

EXODUS CHAPTER 26 Moses is commanded to make the tabernacle with ten curtains, EXODUS 26:1 The length and breadth of the curtains, EXODUS 26:2. The form of the curtains, EXODUS 26:3. He is commanded to make eleven curtains of goats hair, EXODUS 26:7. The manner of the making and placing them, EXODUS... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 26:4

LOOPS together with the taches were for the joining the curtains together, as appears from EXODUS 26:11, which way of conjunction was most convenient for the often taking them down and setting them up. FROM THE SELVAGE, or _from_, or _in the extremity, or end_, or _edge_, Heb. _lip_. _In the couplin... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 26:7

OF GOATS HAIR, spun, EXODUS 35:26, and woven into a stuff, like our camlet. TO BE A COVERING; to be put next above the curtains.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 26:17

TWO TENONS, Heb. _hands_, i.e. parts of the boards, so cut and framed that like hands they may take hold of and be fastened into the sockets, EXODUS 26:19.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 26:23

Which were of another fashion than the former, as may be gathered both from the distinct nomination and use of them, and from the laws of building. And whereas the rest were but single boards, these were double, for greater strength and conveniency of joining them together.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 26:24

COUPLED TOGETHER, Heb. _as twins_, i.e. equal and equally joined together, and exactly answering one to the other. UNTO ONE RING, which ring was exactly in the corner, and with the help of the bars kept the corner boards, and with them the other boards of the tabernacle, close together. But you must... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 26:26

By BARS you may understand either, 1. Several rows or orders of bars, one bar beginning at the end of the other, and each containing four cubits in length, and altogether twenty cubits, which was the length of the tabernacle; or, 2. Single bars, which seem truer, 1. Because the word signifies _ba... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 26:27

There was but one side westward. Either therefore here is a transposition of the Hebrew words, which is usual, and the words are thus to be placed and rendered, WESTWARD, looking _to both sides_, or, _westward_, according to both the _other sides_, now mentioned, to note that the number and length o... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 26:28

IN THE MIDST OF THE BOARDS; not within the thickness of the boards, as the Jews conceive, but in the length of them; as appears, 1. Because this bar, as well as the rest, was gilded, EXODUS 26:29, which was frivolous if it were never seen 2. Because all the bars had rings made to receive and hold... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 26:31

THOU SHALT MAKE A VEIL, which was thick and strong that none could see through it, called the _second veil_, HEBREWS 9:3, whereby the holy of holies, which represented the highest heaven, was divided from the holy place, where the church militant, or its representatives, met and served God, EXODUS 2... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 26:33

UNDER THE TACHES, or, _in the place_ (as the Hebrew _tacheth_ oft signifies) of the taches, to wit, where the two curtains are joined together by taches, EXODUS 26:6.... [ Continue Reading ]

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