¹ tn Or “curtain.”

³ tn Or “curtains.”

⁴ tn Heb “tent curtains.”

¹ tn Heb “eleven curtains he made them.”

³ tn Heb “and he shall bring from house to the curtain.”

¹ tn Heb “set up,” if it includes more than the curtain.

¹ tn Heb “the curtains of your dwelling places let them stretch out.”

¹ sn See the note on Lev 16:2 for information on the curtain.

² tn Heb “and he shall bring its blood into from house to the curtain.”

² sn This curtain will serve “for a tent over the tabernacle,” as a dwelling place.

¹ tn The verb is simply “he made” but as in Exod 26:31 it probably means that the cherubim were worked into the curtain with the yarn, and so embroidered on the curtain.

⁴ sn S. R. Driver suggests that the curtains were made with threads dyed with these colors (Exodus, 280). Perhaps the colored threads were used for embroidering the cherubim in the curtains.

¹ tn Although translated “curtain” (traditionally “veil,” so ASV, NAB, NASB) this is a different word from the one used earlier of the tent curtains, so “special curtain” is used. The word פָּרֹכֶת (parokhet) seems to be connected with a verb that means “to shut off” and was used with a shrine. This curtain would form a barrier in the approach to God (see S. R. Driver, Exodus, 289).

¹ tn The traditional expression is “within the veil,” literally “into the house (or area) of the (special) curtain.”

¹ sn Two outer coverings made of stronger materials will be put over the tent and the curtain, the two inner layers.

² sn U. Cassuto states the following: “To the north and to the south, since the tent curtains were 30 cubits long, there were 10 cubits left over on each side; these covered the 9 cubits of the curtains of the tabernacle and also the bottom cubit of the boards, which the tabernacle curtains did not suffice to cover. It is to this that v. 13 refers” (Exodus, 353).

¹ sn The curtain refers to the veil or drape in the temple that separated the holy place from the holy of holies.

² tn The referent of this term, καταπέτασμα (katapetasma), is not entirely clear. It could refer to the curtain separating the holy of holies from the holy place (Josephus, J. W. 5.5.5 [5.219]), or it could refer to one at the entrance of the temple court (Josephus, J. W. 5.5.4 [5.212]). Many argue that the inner curtain is meant because another term, κάλυμμα (kalumma), is also used for the outer curtain. Others see a reference to the outer curtain as more likely because of the public nature of this sign. Either way, the symbolism means that access to God has been opened up.

¹ sn Note the use in Exod 40:3, “and you will screen the ark with the curtain.” The glory is covered, veiled from being seen.

³ tn The otherwise unattested noun דֹּק (doq), translated here “thin curtain,” is apparently derived from the verbal root דקק (“crush”) from which is derived the adjective דַּק (daq, “thin”; see HALOT 229 s.v. דקק). The nuance “curtain” is implied from the parallelism (see “tent” in the next line).