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Exodus 36:8-19. The curtains made. Artisans join richly colored linen curtain lengths with blue edge loops and gold clasps while the fabric lies flat on long worktables. Close view of two textile edges being joined directly to each other, not hung on rods. Subtle woven cherubim motifs. No curtain rod or modern hanging system; tactile weaving detail. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 36:8-19

The curtains made

More than enough · Exodus 36

Story guide: Skilled workers weave and join the curtains and coverings.

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8And every skillful man among those doing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn; he made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful designer.

9The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain was four cubits; all the curtains had one measurement.

10He joined five of the curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one another.

11He made loops of blue yarn on the edge of the first curtain at the end of the first set joined together; likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set joined together.

12He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops corresponded to one another.

13And he made fifty gold clasps, and joined the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one.

14He made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.

15The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the width of each curtain; the eleven curtains had one measure.

16And he joined five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

17He made fifty loops on the edge of the outer curtain in the first set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain of the second set.

18He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent, so that it would be one.

19He made a covering for the tent of ram skins dyed red, and a covering of fine leather above.

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