Exodus 26:31, Exodus 26:33 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 26:1-37

(Compare Exodus 36:8-33.) The tabernacle was to comprise three main parts, the tabernacle 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... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 26:31-33

Exodus 26:31-33. Thou shalt make a veil The whole fabric in the inside was to be divided into two rooms by a large and thick veil or curtain of the finest wrought stuff, with variety of colours, and cherubs, and other figures. It was to be hung upon golden hooks at the top, and by reason of its thickness and weight to rest against four overlaid, or gilded pillars, mortised into so many silver pedestals. The lesser of these rooms, thus parted from the other so as none could look into it, was... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:1-37

Curtains, coverings and framework (26:1-37)Probably the easiest way to picture the two-roomed structure under the tent is as a huge open box with a cloth draped over it. This cloth was a multi-coloured, richly embroidered linen covering that formed a ceiling and hung over the four sides but did not quite reach the ground. It consisted of two sets of five curtain strips sewn along their length and then tied together to form one huge covering (26:1-6).Over this multi-coloured linen covering was... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 26:31

vail . Hebrew. paroketh (not masak, as in Exodus 26:36 ), means to separate. Compare Hebrews 6:10 ; Hebrews 9:3 .Matthew 27:51 .Mark 15:38 . Luke 23:46 . shall it be made. The Sevir ( App-34 ) reading is "shalt thou make it", with other codices, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 26:31-37

THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE"And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the skilled workman shall it be made: and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlayed with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, upon four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most holy.... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 26:31

Exodus 26:31. And thou shalt make a vail— A vail made of the same stuff and workmanship with the inmost covering of the tabernacle, hung upon four pillars of shittim-wood, overlaid with gold, &c. (see note following) was to divide the sacred dwelling into two parts, the inmost called the most holy, and the outer called the holy place. Into the most holy the ark, &c. was put; where none but the high-priest was permitted to enter; and that only once a year. Thus it is often, in the New... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 26:31-35

The veil 26:31-35The veil and curtains were alike in design and construction. The veil hung to act as a wall separating the holy and most holy places into two rooms. Some extrabiblical references to a second veil between the holy and most holy places have created confusion. [Note: See Henry van der Meulen, "One or two veils in front of the holy of holies?" Theologia Evangelica 18:1 (March 1985):22-27.] The Old Testament is clear that there was just one. The Book of Hebrews used the veil in the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 26:1-37

The Tabernacle ProperThis, which in the Hebrew is called ’the dwelling’ (see on Exodus 25:9), consists of an oblong tent, 30 cubits long, 10 broad, and 10 high, and stands within the ’court of the tabernacle’ (Exodus 27:9 -f.). It is formed of a frame of open woodwork, over which are spread four layers of coverings, the undermost being of linen embroidered with figures of cherubim, the second of goathair cloth, the third of ramskin, and the outermost of sealskin. Internally, therefore, the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 26:1-37

XXVI.THE TABERNACLE.(1-37) The sacred tent which was to form the “House of God,” or temple, for Israel during the continuance of the people in the wilderness, and which in point of fact served them for a national sanctuary until the construction of the first temple by Solomon, is described in this chapter with a minuteness which leaves little to be desired. It is called ham-mishkân, “the dwelling,” and ha-’ohel, “the tent” (Exodus 26:36)—the former from its purpose, as being the place where God... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 26:31

5. THE VAIL, AND THE POSITION WHICH IT WAS TO OCCUPY.(31) Thou shalt make a vail.—It was of the essence of the mishkân that it should have an outer and an inner sanctuary, a place for the daily ministrations of the priests, and an adytum or penetrale of extreme holiness, in which was to be the Divine Presence, and into which the high priest alone was to be privileged to enter, and he but once in the year. (See Exodus 30:10; Leviticus 16:2-34; Hebrews 9:7.) The separation between these two... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 26:1-37

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 26:31-33

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:1-37

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 26:31

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 26:31-37

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 26:31

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 26:31-35

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 26:1-37

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 26:1-37

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 26:31

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