John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:2
The length of one curtain shall be twenty eight cubits ,.... Or fourteen yards: and the breadth of one curtain four cubits ; or two yards; according to the common notion of a cubit being half a yard; but if, as Dr. Cumberland says, the Jewish and Egyptian cubit was three inches longer, this will make a considerable difference in the length and breadth of those curtains, especially in the former: and everyone of the curtains shall have one measure ; be of equal length and breadth. read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 26:1-6
I. The house must be a tabernacle or tent, such as soldiers now use in the camp, which was both a mean dwelling and a movable one; and yet the ark of God had not better, till Solomon built the temple 480 years after this, 1 Kgs. 6:1. God manifested his presence among them thus in a tabernacle, 1. In compliance with their present condition in the wilderness, that they might have him with them wherever they went. Note, God suits the tokens of his favour, and the gifts of his grace, to his... read more