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Exodus 26:1-14. Curtains and coverings. Instructional material study: blue purple scarlet linen with cherubim, goat hair cloth and skin coverings folded separately. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 26:1-14

Curtains and coverings

Story guide: Yahweh describes the tabernacle’s linen curtains and the layers of covering over it.

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1And you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen, and blue and purple and scarlet yarn; with cherubim, the work of a skillful designer, you shall make them.

2The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have one measure.

3Five curtains shall be joined to one another, and five curtains shall be joined to one another.

4And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain at the end of the first set joined together; and so you shall do on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set joined together.

5You shall make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another.

6And you shall make fifty gold clasps, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be one.

7You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make them as eleven curtains.

8The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all eleven curtains shall have one measure.

9And you shall join the five curtains separately, and the six curtains separately; and you shall fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent.

10And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain, the outermost one in the set joined together, and fifty loops on the edge of the second curtain that is joined to it.

11And you shall make fifty bronze clasps, and put the clasps into the loops, and join the tent together, so that it may be one.

12And the overhang that remains from the tent curtains—the half curtain that remains over—shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

13And the extra cubit on this side and the extra cubit on that side, from the surplus in the length of the tent curtains, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

14And you shall make for the tent a covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of tahash skins above.

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