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Exodus 26

Ex. 26:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Moreover thou shalt make
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
the tabernacle
mishkan (Hebrew #4908)
a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls)
KJV usage: dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.
Pronounce: mish-kawn'
Origin: from 7931
with ten
`eser (Hebrew #6235)
from 6237; ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits)
KJV usage: ten, (fif-, seven-)teen.
Pronounce: eh'ser
Origin: masculine of term aasarah {as-aw-raw'}
g curtains
yriy`ah (Hebrew #3407)
a hanging (as tremulous)
KJV usage: curtain.
Pronounce: yer-ee-aw'
Origin: from 3415
of fine twined
shazar (Hebrew #7806)
to twist (a thread of straw)
KJV usage: twine.
Pronounce: shaw-zar'
Origin: a primitive root
linen
shesh (Hebrew #8336)
for 7893; bleached stuff, i.e. white linen or (by analogy) marble
KJV usage: X blue, fine ((twined)) linen, marble, silk.
Pronounce: shaysh
Origin: or (for alliteration with 4897) shshiy {shesh-ee'}
, and blue
tkeleth (Hebrew #8504)
the cerulean mussel, i.e. the color (violet) obtained therefrom or stuff dyed therewith
KJV usage: blue.
Pronounce: tek-ay'-leth
Origin: probably for 7827
, and purple
'argaman (Hebrew #713)
purple (the color or the dyed stuff)
KJV usage: purple.
Pronounce: ar-gaw-mawn'
Origin: of foreign origin
, and scarlet
towla` (Hebrew #8438)
or towla ath {to-lah'-ath}; or tolaiath {to-lah'-ath}; from 3216; a maggot (as voracious); specifically (often with ellipsis of 8144) the crimson-grub, but used only (in this connection) of the color from it, and cloths dyed therewith
KJV usage: crimson, scarlet, worm.
Pronounce: to-law'
Origin: and (feminine) towleoah {to-lay-aw'}
shaniy (Hebrew #8144)
crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
KJV usage: crimson, scarlet (thread).
Pronounce: shaw-nee'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
: with cherubims
kruwb (Hebrew #3742)
a cherub or imaginary figure
KJV usage: cherub, (plural) cherubims.
Pronounce: ker-oob'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
ηof cunning
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
work
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
shalt thou make
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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1 Chron. 17:1• 1And it came to pass as David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah under curtains. (1 Chron. 17:1)
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the work of a cunning workman, or, embroiderer.

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Blue,
Cunning,
Linen,
Purple,
Scarlet,
Ten,
The Tabernacle

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-6:  The ten curtains of the tabernacle.
7-14:  The eleven curtains of goats' hair, and the covering of rams' and badgers' skins.
15-30:  The boards of the tabernacle, with their sockets and bars.
31-35:  The vail for the ark.
36-37:  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."
Ex. 25:8• 8And they shall make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. (Ex. 25:8)
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Ex. 36:8‑19• 8And every wise-hearted man among those that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work did he make them.
 9The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits--one measure for all the curtains.
 10And he coupled five of the curtains one to another, and the other five curtains coupled he one to another.
 11And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain at the edge of the coupling; he did likewise in the edge of the outermost curtain in the other coupling.
 12He made fifty loops in one curtain, and he made fifty loops at the end of the curtain that was in the other coupling: the loops were opposite to one another.
 13And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one.
 14And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them.
 15The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain--one measure for the eleven curtains.
 16And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves.
 17And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he on the edge of the curtain in the other coupling.
 18And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one.
 19And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that. (Ex. 36:8‑19)
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Ex. 40:2,17‑19• 2On the day of the first month, on the first of the month, shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
 17And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first of the month, that the tabernacle was set up.
 18And Moses set up the tabernacle, and put in its bases, and fixed its boards, and put in its bars, and set up its pillars.
 19And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above over it; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. (Ex. 40:2,17‑19)
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1 Chron. 17:1• 1And it came to pass as David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah under curtains. (1 Chron. 17:1)
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1 Chron. 21:29• 29And the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt-offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. (1 Chron. 21:29)
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John 1:14• 14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth; (John 1:14)
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John 2:21• 21But *he* spoke of the temple of his body. (John 2:21)
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Heb. 8:2• 2minister of the holy places and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, and not man. (Heb. 8:2)
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Heb. 9:9,23‑24• 9the which is an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,
 23It was necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.
 24For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: (Heb. 9:9,23‑24)
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Rev. 21:3• 3And I heard a loud voice out of the heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall tabernacle with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God. (Rev. 21:3)
fine twined linen.
Ex. 26:36• 36And thou shalt make for the entrance of the tent a curtain of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, of embroidery. (Ex. 26:36)
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Ex. 25:4• 4and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' hair, (Ex. 25:4)
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Ex. 35:6,35• 6and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' hair,
 35he has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work of the engraver, and of the artificer, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in byssus, and of the weaver, even of them that do every kind of work, and of those that devise artistic work (Ex. 35:6,35)
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Rev. 19:8• 8And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright and pure; for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints. (Rev. 19:8)
cherubims.
Ex. 25:18• 18And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat. (Ex. 25:18)
cunning work.
Heb. the work of a cunning workman, orembroiderer.
• If we examine the details more closely, it will be found that in the tent and veil there was no gold, but there were cherubim; in the ephod, gold, but no cherubim; in the hangings before the holy place, neither. Within, in both holy place and holy of holies, all was gold. So Christ as man (and the veil we know was His flesh) had the judicial authority, and will have it as man, not only in government, but in final divine judgment; but He was man, and walked as man; within all was divine. (“Exodus 26” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic workf shalt thou make them.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "work of the designer."