Exodus 26:6

What does Exodus 26:6 mean?

A plain-English look at Exodus 26:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together by the hooks, and in this way the House will be made.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and thou hast made fifty hooks of gold, and hast joined the curtains one to another by the hooks, and the tabernacle hath been one.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Thou shalt make also fifty rings of gold, wherewith the veils of the curtains are to be joined, that it may be made one tabernacle.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps, that the tabernacle may be one [whole].

Context

v.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.

v.6This passage

v.7And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 26:11

    And 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 26:33

    And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shalt 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.

  • 1 Peter 2:4

    unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,

  • Exodus 36:18

    And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

  • 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.

  • Exodus 36:13

    And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was one.

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