Discovery BoxExodus 26:6 
Context26:6 You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit. 1
Exodus 26:11
Context26:11 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. 2
Exodus 36:13
Context36:13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit. 3
Exodus 35:11
Context35:11 the tabernacle with 4 its tent, its covering, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases;
Exodus 36:18
Context36:18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit. 5
Exodus 39:33
Context39:33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings, clasps, frames, bars, posts, and bases;
Exodus 26:33
Context26:33 You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain. 6 The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. 7
1 tn Heb “one”; KJV “it shall be one tabernacle”; NRSV “that the tabernacle may be one whole”; NLT “a single unit.”
2 tn Heb “one”
3 tn Heb “one.”
4 tn In Hebrew style all these items are typically connected with a vav (ו) conjunction, but English typically uses commas except between the last two items in a series or between items in a series that are somehow related to one another. The present translation follows contemporary English style in lists such as this.
5 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.”
6 tn The traditional expression is “within the veil,” literally “into the house (or area) of the (special) curtain.”
7 tn Or “the Holy of Holies.”
