Exodus 26:31

“You are to make a special curtain ¹  of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; it is to be made ²  with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer.

Ex 25:4; Ex 25:18; Ex 26:1; Ex 28:15; Ex 35:6,25,35; Ex 36:8; Ex 36:35; Ex 38:23; Ex 40:3,21; Le 16:2,15; 2Ch 2:7-13; 2Ch 3:14; Ps 137:5; So 7:1; Mt 27:51; Mr 15:38; Lu 23:45; Eph 2:14; Heb 9:3-8; Heb 10:20,21

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 פָרֹכֶת (farokhet) 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).

² tn The verb is the third masculine singular form, but no subject is expressed. It could be translated “one will make” or as a passive. The verb means “to make,” but probably has the sense of embroidering both here and in v. 1.