Exodus 36:18
36:18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit. 1
Exodus 26:6
26:6 You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit. 2
Exodus 26:11
26:11 You are to make fifty bronze clasps and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it is a unit. 3
Exodus 36:13
36:13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit. 4
1 tn The construction uses the infinitive construct from the verb “to be” to express this purpose clause: “to be one,” or, “so that it might be a unit.”
2 tn Heb “one”; KJV “it shall be one tabernacle”; NRSV “that the tabernacle may be one whole”; NLT “a single unit.”
3 tn Heb “one”
4 tn Heb “one.”