American Standard Version
Exodus 26:6
6And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be one whole.
Exodus 26:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
- New International Version (NIV)Then make fifty gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the tabernacle is a unit.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps, so that it may be one tabernacle.
Context of Exodus 26:6
4And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. 5Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling; the loops shall be opposite one to another. And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be one whole. 7And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them. 8The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
Read all of Exodus 26Exodus 26:6 word by word
וְעָשִׂ֕יתָ חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים קַרְסֵ֣י זָהָ֑ב וְחִבַּרְתָּ֨ אֶת־הַיְרִיעֹ֜ת אִשָּׁ֤ה אֶל־אֲחֹתָהּ֙ בַּקְּרָסִ֔ים וְהָיָ֥ה הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן אֶחָֽד׃ פRead the interlinear
Cross-references for Exodus 26:6
- Exodus 26:11And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
- Exodus 35:11the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
- Exodus 36:13And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was one.
- Exodus 39:33And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets;
- Ephesians 1:22and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
- Ephesians 4:16from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
- 1 Peter 2:4unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,
Commentaries on Exodus 26:6
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-37Verses 1-37 (Compare Exodus 26:1-6, more strictly so-called, its tent Exodus 26:7-13, and its covering Exodus 26:14 (Compare Exodus 35:11; Exodus 39:33-34; Exodus 40:19, Exodus 40:34; Numbers 3:25, etc.). These parts are very clearly distinguished in the Hebrew, but they are confounded in many places of the English Version (see Exodus 26:7, Exodus 26:9, etc.). The tabernacle itself was to consist of curtains of fine linen woven with colored figures of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-6The cloth was 13 meters long (42 feet) and two meters wide (six feet). The width of two meters (six feet) may have been because of the largest loom available. They joined five of these six-foot strips, probably by sewing, to create one continuous piece of cloth 13 meters long (42 feet) and 10 meters wide (30 feet). When connected with loops and clasps, the two cloths formed a single unit measuring 13 meters (42 feet) by 20 meters (60 feet) (26:5–6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. taches--clasps; supposed in shape, as well as in use, to be the same as hooks and eyes.Read the comment
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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