Exodus 26:3
What does Exodus 26:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Exodus 26:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Five curtains are to be joined together, and the other five are to be joined together.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862five of the curtains are joining one unto another, and five curtains are joining one to another.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the other five shall be coupled together in like manner.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Five of the curtains shall be coupled one to another, and [the other] five curtains coupled one to another.
Context
v.2The 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.
v.3This passage
v.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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 36:10
And he coupled five curtains one to another: and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
- John 17:21
that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
- Ephesians 2:21
in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
- Ephesians 4:16
from 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 Corinthians 12:12
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
- Exodus 26:9
And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.
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