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Ex. 36:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.

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Ex. 36:9• ⁹The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size. (Ex. 36:9)

• {v.9-13} These linen curtains were ten in number, each 28 cubits long and four cubits wide, joined side by side together in two sets of five curtains each. These two parts were in turn joined to each other by fifty loops of blue, and hooked with golden hooks, which coupled all together, making one Tabernacle. (“The Linen Curtains - Their Dimensions and So Forth” by S. Ridout)

• The word for “curtains” is Yerioth, from a root meaning to tremble or wave—as suspended curtains do. A similar root with a similar primary meaning is the word for “fear.” How suggestively do these thoughts describe the Lord Jesus as He was here. He was the dependent One, not relying upon His own inherent strength, but cleaving ever to His Father. He was perfectly obedient because perfectly dependent upon the will of God. Thus the true “fear” of the Lord characterized Him. He was ever moved by the slightest breath of the Spirit. There was thus, in the eye of man, entire weakness, for He had no will apart from perfect subjection to God (“The Linen Curtains - Their Dimensions and So Forth” by S. Ridout)

• “Length” is the extension, and may well stand for the whole course of life. It is used in this way in Scripture-”Length of days” is a familiar expression. (“The Linen Curtains - Their Dimensions and So Forth” by S. Ridout)

• Solomon had great largeness (breadth) of heart (1 Kings 4:29): “I will walk at liberty (or broadness)”—Psa. 119:45 Isa. 60:5; Psa. 81:10; Ps. 119:32....“Breadth” thus suggests the character of the life and its attendant circumstances. In speaking then of our Lord’s life, “length” would suggest its whole course, and “breadth” its character and the circumstances in which this was displayed. (“The Linen Curtains - Their Dimensions and So Forth” by S. Ridout)

• The length of these curtains was twenty-eight cubits. Resolving this number into two factors, we have 4x7. The four, as we have just been seeing, is the number of the earth and of weakness. Seven is the familiar number (perhaps the most familiar of all) which speaks of completeness and perfection. Seven days make a complete week; the seven fat and lean kine of Pharaoh’s dream (Gen. 41:1-8), and the various series of seven in the book of Revelation, are illustrations of this. Seven times four would suggest then that testing, trial and weakness in our Lord which were only the occasion of manifesting His perfection. (“The Linen Curtains - Their Dimensions and So Forth” by S. Ridout)

• The ten curtains had one “measure;” the word means to extend, to stretch, and thus to apply the standard. This is a striking picture of the Lord’s life; every part of it was according to an unvarying standard. Nothing was out of proportion. (“The Linen Curtains - Their Dimensions and So Forth” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits—one measure for all the curtains.

W. Kelly Translation

The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits—one measure for all the curtains.

WK Verse Note

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