Exo 26:1, 7, 30, 27:21, 30:36, 35:11, 36:18, 40:6, 18-19 | TSK | STEP | The ten curtains of the tabernacle. The eleven curtains of goats' hair, and the covering of rams' and badgers' skins. The boards of the tabernacle, with their sockets and bars. The vail for the ark. The hanging for the door. the tabernacle with ten curtains.The word {mishcan,} from {shachan,} to dwell, means simply a dwelling-place, or habitation. "When God had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt," says the very learned Dr. Cudworth, "resolving to manifest himself in a peculiar manner present among them, he thought good to dwell amongst them in a visible and external manner; and therefore, while they were in the wilderness, and sojourned in tents, he would have a tent or tabernacle built, to sojourn with them also.--Now, the tabernacle being thus a house for God to dwell in visibly, to make up the notion of dwelling or habitation complete, there must be all things suitable to a house belonging to it. Hence, in the holy place, there must be a table and a candlestick, because these were the ordinary furniture of a room. The table must have its dishes, and spoons, and bowls, and covers, belonging to it, though they were never used; and always be furnished with bread upon it. The candlestick must have its lamps continually burning, etc." fine twined linen. cherubims. cunning work. Heb. the work of a cunning workman, orembroiderer.

Exodus 26:1

1 The ten curtains of the tabernacle.

7 The eleven curtains of goats' hair, and the covering of rams' and badgers' skins.

15 The boards of the tabernacle, with their sockets and bars.

31 The vail for the ark.

36 The hanging for the door.

the tabernacle with ten curtains.The word {mishcan,} from {shachan,} to dwell, means simply a dwelling-place, or habitation. "When God had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt," says the very learned Dr. Cudworth, "resolving to manifest himself in a peculiar manner present among them, he thought good to dwell amongst them in a visible and external manner; and therefore, while they were in the wilderness, and sojourned in tents, he would have a tent or tabernacle built, to sojourn with them also.--Now, the tabernacle being thus a house for God to dwell in visibly, to make up the notion of dwelling or habitation complete, there must be all things suitable to a house belonging to it. Hence, in the holy place, there must be a table and a candlestick, because these were the ordinary furniture of a room. The table must have its dishes, and spoons, and bowls, and covers, belonging to it, though they were never used; and always be furnished with bread upon it. The candlestick must have its lamps continually burning, etc."

25:8; 36:8-19; 40:2,17-19; 1Ch 17:1; 21:29; Joh 1:14; 2:21; Heb 8:2

Heb 9:9,23,24; Re 21:3

fine twined linen.

36; 25:4; 35:6,35; Re 19:8

cherubims.

25:18

cunning work. Heb. the work of a cunning workman, orembroiderer.

Exodus 26:7

curtains.

35:26; 36:14-18; Nu 4:25; Ps 45:13; 1Pe 3:4; 5:5

goats' hair.{Izzim,} goats, but used here elliptically for goats' hair. In different parts of Asia Minor, Syria, Cilicia, and Phrygia, the goats have long, fine, and beautiful hair; in some cases, almost as fine as silk, which is shorn at proper times, and manufactured into garments.

25:4; 35:6,23; Nu 31:20

14; Isa 4:5

eleven.

1,9,12

Exodus 26:30

rear up the tabernacle.

40:2,17,18; Nu 10:21; Jos 18:1; Heb 8:2

according to the fashion.

25:9,40; 27:8; Ac 7:44; Heb 8:5; 9:23

Exodus 27:21

the tabernacle of the congregation.

29:10,44; Le 3:8; Nu 8:9

without the vail.

26:31-33; 40:3

testimony.

16:34; 25:16,21

Aaron.

30:8; 1Sa 3:3; 2Ch 13:11; Mal 2:7; Mt 4:16; Lu 12:35; Joh 5:35

2Co 4:6; 2Pe 1:19; Re 2:1

evening.

Ge 1:5,8; Le 24:3; Ps 134:1

a statute for ever.

28:43; 29:9,28; Le 3:17; 16:34; 24:9; Nu 18:23; 19:21; 1Sa 30:25

Exodus 30:36

the testimony.

16:34

where I will.

6; 25:22; 29:42,43; Le 16:2

Exodus 35:11

tabernacle.

26:1,2-37; 31:7-9; 36:8-34

taches.{Keraism,} from {karas,} to bend, so called from their curved form; hooks, clasps, or any thing used for the purpose of fastening: the word taches is formed by aphæresis from the French attacher, to fasten. They were equivalent, perhaps, to our hooks-and-eyes.

Exodus 36:18

Exodus 40:6

29; 27:1-8; 38:1-7; Eph 1:6,7; Heb 13:10; 1Jo 2:2; 4:9,10

Exodus 40:18-19

reared.

2; 26:15-30; 36:20-34; Le 26:11; Eze 37:27,28; Joh 1:14; Ga 4:4

1Pe 1:5; Re 21:3

and fastened.

Isa 33:24; Mt 16:18; 1Ti 3:15

the tent.

26:1-14; 36:8-19