Exodus 26 (WK) - Bible Truth Library

purple.{Argaman,} a very precious colour, extracted from the purpura, or murex, a species of shell-fish; and supposed to be the same with the costly and much celebrated Tyrian purple.scarlet.Tolaâth; properly the worm whence the scarlet colour was produced; which grew in a coccus, or excrescence, of a shrub of the ilex kind, like the cochineal worm in the Opuntia of America; which is arranged under the same genus as the Arabic {Kermez,} which also denotes this colour.cunning work.

Ex. 26:1• ¹{i}And thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work shalt thou make them.{/i} (Ex. 26:1)

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Ex. 28:15• ¹⁵{i}And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment of artistic work, like the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus shalt thou make it.{/i} (Ex. 28:15)

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Ex. 38:23• ²³{i}and with him Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and artificer, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in byssus.{/i} (Ex. 38:23)

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2 Chron. 2:7‑13• ⁷{i}And now send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple and crimson and blue, and experienced in carving, besides the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.{/i}
⁸{i}Send me also cedar-trees, cypress-trees, and sandal-wood trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants are experienced in cutting timber in Lebanon; and behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,{/i}
⁹Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great.
¹⁰And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
¹¹{i}And Huram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Jehovah loved his people, he made thee king over them.{/i}
¹²{i}And Huram said, Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, that made the heavens and the earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, who will build a house for Jehovah and a house for his kingdom.{/i}
¹³{i}And now, I send a skilful man, endued with understanding, Huram Abi,{/i} (2 Chron. 2:7‑13)

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Psa. 137:5• ⁵If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its skill]. (Psa. 137:5)

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Song of Sol. 7:1• ¹How beautiful are thy steps in sandals,{HR}Ο prince's daughter!{HR}The joints of thy thighs like jewels,{HR}Work of the hands of a skilful artist. (Song of Sol. 7:1)

cherubims shall it be made.

Ex. 25:18• ¹⁸{i}And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat.{/i} (Ex. 25:18)

• Figurative, I doubt not, of the essential purity of Christ as a man, and of all the divine graces embroidered, as it were, thereon. To this was also added cherubim, the figure, as we have seen, of judicial power, conferred, as we know, on Christ as man: God “will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained.” (“Exodus 26” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

And thou shalt make a veila of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus; of artistic work shall it be made, with cherubim.

JND Translation Notes

Or "screen."

W. Kelly Translation

And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus; of artistic work shall it be made, with cherubim.

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)