Exodus 26:2 “Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide —a…”

Exodus 26:2

Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide —all curtains the same size.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

The length of each curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.

Geneva Bible 1599

The length of one curtaine shalbe eight and twentie cubites, and the bredth of one curtaine, foure cubites: euery one of the curtaines shall haue one measure.

Darby Translation

The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits — one measure for all the curtains.

Young's Literal Translation

the length of the one curtain [is] eight and twenty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit, one measure [is] to all the curtains;

Bible in Basic English

Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

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Cross references

“curtain”

Numbers 4:25 2 Samuel 7:2 1 Chronicles 17:1 Exodus 26:7 Exodus 26:8

Numbers 4:25 · BSB

They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting with the covering of fine leather over it, the curtains for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

2 Samuel 7:2 · BSB

he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

1 Chronicles 17:1 · BSB

After David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”

Exodus 26:7 · BSB

You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

Exodus 26:8 · BSB

Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.

3Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five joined as well.

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