Discovery BoxExodus 26:7 
Context26:7 “You are to make curtains of goats’ hair 1 for a tent over the tabernacle; 2 you are to make 3 eleven curtains.
Exodus 29:11
Context29:11 You are to kill the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting
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 40:2
Context40:2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up 6 the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
Exodus 40:7
Context40:7 You are to put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it. 7
Exodus 40:22
Context40:22 And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain.
Exodus 40:24
Context40:24 And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:34
Context40:34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
1 sn This chapter will show that there were two sets of curtains and two sets of coverings that went over the wood building to make the tabernacle or dwelling place. The curtains of fine linen described above could be seen only by the priests from inside. Above that was the curtain of goats’ hair. Then over that were the coverings, an inner covering of rams’ skins dyed red and an outer covering of hides of fine leather. The movement is from the inside to the outside because it is God’s dwelling place; the approach of the worshiper would be the opposite. The pure linen represented the righteousness of God, guarded by the embroidered cherubim; the curtain of goats’ hair was a reminder of sin through the daily sin offering of a goat; the covering of rams’ skins dyed red was a reminder of the sacrifice and the priestly ministry set apart by blood, and the outer covering marked the separation between God and the world. These are the interpretations set forth by Kaiser; others vary, but not greatly (see W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:459).
2 sn This curtain will serve “for a tent over the tabernacle,” as a dwelling place.
3 tn Heb “you will make them”
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 Heb “you will raise,” an imperfect of instruction.
7 tn Heb “there.”
