出埃及记 26
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
幕幔的做法(A)
26 “你要用十幅幔子來做會幕;幔子要用撚的細麻、藍色紫色朱紅色線做成,並要用巧工繡上基路伯。 2 每幅幔子要長十二公尺,寬兩公尺,每幅幔子都要一樣的尺寸。 3 其中五幅幔子要彼此相連,另外五幅幔子也要彼此相連。 4 其中一組相連的幔子最後一幅的邊上,你要做藍色的鈕扣;在另一組相連的幔子最後一幅的邊上,你也要這樣做。 5 在這幅幔子上,你要做五十個鈕扣;在另一組幔子最後一幅的邊上,你也要做五十個鈕扣,這些鈕扣要彼此相對。 6 你要做五十個金鉤,又要用鉤使幔子相連起來,成為一整個會幕。
7 “你要用山羊毛做幔子,作會幕上面的帳棚,你要做十一幅幔子。 8 每幅幔子要長十三公尺,寬兩公尺,十一幅幔子都要一樣的尺寸。 9 你要把五幅幔子連在一起,又把另外六幅幔子連在一起,你要在帳棚前面把第六幅幔子摺疊起來。 10 在這一組相連的幔子最後一幅的邊上,你要做五十個鈕扣;在另一組相連的幔子最後一幅的邊上,也要做五十個鈕扣。 11 你又要做五十個銅鉤,把鉤穿進鈕扣中,使帳棚連起來,成為一整個帳棚。 12 帳棚的幔子多出的那部分,即垂下來的半幅幔子,要垂在會幕的後面。 13 帳棚幔子多出的長度,要這邊五十公分,那邊五十公分,並且要在會幕的兩邊,遮蓋會幕。 14 你又要用染紅的公羊皮做帳棚的頂蓋,在上面再蓋上海狗皮。
幕板的做法(B)
15 “你要用皂莢木做會幕的豎板, 16 每塊板要長四公尺,寬六十六公分。 17 每塊木板要有兩個榫頭,彼此連接,會幕的一切木板你都要這樣做。 18 你要給會幕做木板;給南邊,就是向南的一面,做二十塊木板, 19 在這二十塊板底下,你要做四十個銀插座;每塊木板底下有兩個插座連接它的兩個榫頭。 20 你也要給會幕的另一邊,就是北面,做二十塊木板, 21 和四十個銀插座。這塊木板底下有兩個插座,那塊木板底下也有兩個插座。 22 給會幕的後面,就是西面,你要做六塊木板。 23 在會幕後面的兩角上,你要做兩塊木板。 24 木板的下截是要雙的,一直連到上面的第一環那裡,都是要雙的。兩塊都要這樣做,要成為兩隻角。 25 所以要有八塊木板,和十六個銀插座,這塊木板底下有兩個插座,那塊木板底下也有兩個插座。
26 “你要用皂莢木做橫閂,為會幕這邊的木板做五個橫閂, 27 為會幕那邊的木板也做五個橫閂,又為會幕的後邊,即西邊的木板,也做五個橫閂。 28 木板中部的中閂,要從這一端通到那一端, 29 木板要包金,你也要做板上的金環,用來穿上橫閂,橫閂也要包金。 30 你要照著在山上指示你的樣式立起會幕。
幔子的做法(C)
31 “你要用藍色紫色朱紅色線和撚的細麻做幔幕,並且要用巧工繡上基路伯。 32 你要把幔幕掛在四根包金的皂莢木柱子上,柱上有金鉤,柱腳安在四個銀插座上。 33 你要把幔幕掛在鉤子上,把法櫃抬進幔幕裡面,這幔幕要給你們把聖所和至聖所分開。 34 你要把施恩座安在至聖所內的法櫃上。 35 你要把桌子放在幔幕外,把燈臺放在會幕的南邊,與桌子相對;把桌子安在北面。
門簾和柱子的做法(D)
36 “你要給帳幕的門口做塊簾子,要用藍色紫色朱紅色線和撚的細麻編織而成。 37 你又要用皂莢木為簾子做五根柱子,柱子要包金,柱上有金鉤,你也要為柱腳鑄造五個銅插座。”
出埃及 26
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
圣幕的做法
26 “要用十幅幔子造圣幕,这些幔子要用细麻线和蓝、紫、朱红三种颜色的毛线织成,还要用精致的手工绣上基路伯天使。 2 每幅幔子的尺寸都一样,长十二米、宽两米。 3 每五幅连在一起,形成两幅大幔子。 4 要在每幅大幔子边缘钉上蓝色的扣环, 5 每幅大幔子钉五十个,扣环要两两相对, 6 再做五十个金钩,把两幅大幔子连在一起,成为圣幕。
7 “要用山羊毛织十一幅幔子作圣幕的罩棚, 8 每幅长十三米、宽两米。十一幅幔子的尺寸都要一样。 9 然后,你们要把五幅连成一大幅,其余六幅连成一大幅,第六幅要在圣幕前叠起来。 10 要在这两幅幔子的边缘各钉上五十个扣环, 11 再做五十个铜钩,把这两幅大幔子扣在一起,成为一个完整的罩棚。 12 铺罩棚所剩下来的半幅幔子要垂到圣幕后面。 13 两旁余下的幔子可垂在圣幕的两边,每边长五十厘米,盖着圣幕。 14 罩棚上面要盖一层染成红色的公羊皮,再盖一层海狗皮做顶盖。
15 “要用皂荚木做支撑圣幕的木板, 16 每块木板长四米,宽六十六厘米。 17 每块木板要有两个接榫,好连接在一起。圣幕的所有木板都要这样。 18 圣幕的南面要有二十块木板, 19 在这些木板下面要造四十个带凹槽的银底座,每块木板下面两个,用来套在木板的两个接榫上。 20 圣幕北面也要有二十块木板, 21 这些木板下面也要装上四十个带凹槽的银底座,每块木板下面有两个银底座。 22 圣幕后面,就是西面,要有六块木板。 23 圣幕后面的两个拐角要各有两块木板, 24 木板的下端连于底座[a],顶端用一个环固定。两个拐角都要这样做。 25 这样,两端便共有八块木板,每块木板下面各有两个带凹槽的银底座,一共有十六个银底座。
26-27 “要用皂荚木做横闩,圣幕左右两边及后面的墙板上要各有五根横闩, 28 拦腰固定墙板的那根横闩要从这端贯穿到那端。 29 所有的木板和横闩都要包上金,并要在木板上造金环,用来穿横闩。 30 要照着我在山上所指示你的样式,把圣幕支搭起来。
造至圣所的条例
31 “要用细麻线和蓝色、紫色、朱红色的线织成一幅幔子,上面用精致的手工绣上基路伯天使。 32 要把这幅幔子挂在四根包金的皂荚木柱上,木柱上面有金钩,木柱立在四个带凹槽的银底座上面。 33 要把整幅幔子挂在木柱的金钩上,把约柜抬进幔子里。这幔子把圣幕分为两个部分,幔子里面是至圣所,外面是圣所。 34 要把施恩座放在至圣所里面的约柜上。 35 桌子要放在幔子的外面、圣所的北面,灯台放在南面,跟桌子相对。 36 要用细麻线和蓝色、紫色、朱红色的线绣制圣幕的门帘。 37 要用皂荚木做五根挂门帘的柱子,柱子包上金,上面要有金钩,并要为柱子造五个带凹槽的铜底座。
Footnotes
- 26:24 “连于底座”或译“是双层的”。
Exodus 26
New English Translation
The Tabernacle
26 [a] “The tabernacle itself[b] you are to make with[c] ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet;[d] you are to make them with[e] cherubim that are the work of an artistic designer. 2 The length of each[f] curtain is to be 42 feet, and the width of each curtain is to be 6 feet[g]—the same size for each of the curtains. 3 Five curtains are to be joined,[h] one to another,[i] and the other[j] five curtains are to be joined, one to another. 4 You are to make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and in the same way you are to make loops[k] in the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set. 5 You are to make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you are to make fifty loops on the end curtain which is on the second set, so that the loops are opposite one to another.[l] 6 You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit.[m]
7 “You are to make curtains of goats’ hair[n] for a tent over the tabernacle;[o] you are to make[p] eleven curtains. 8 The length of each[q] curtain is to be 45 feet, and the width of each curtain is to be 6 feet—the same size for the eleven curtains. 9 You are to join five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. You are to double over[r] the sixth curtain at the front of the tent. 10 You are to make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain that joins the second set. 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.[s] 12 Now the part that remains of the curtains of the tent—the half curtain that remains will hang over at the back of the tabernacle.[t] 13 The foot and a half[u] on the one side and the foot and a half on the other side of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent will hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on one side and the other side, to cover it.[v]
14 “You are to make a covering[w] for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather.[x]
15 “You are to make the frames[y] for the tabernacle out of[z] acacia wood as uprights.[aa] 16 Each[ab] frame is to be 15 feet long, and each frame is to be 27 inches wide, 17 with two projections[ac] per frame parallel one to another.[ad] You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. 18 So you are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side,[ae] 19 and you are to make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames—two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise[af] two bases under the next frame for its two projections; 20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, twenty frames, 21 and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame. 22 And for the back of the tabernacle on the west[ag] you will make six frames. 23 You are to make two frames for the corners[ah] of the tabernacle on the back. 24 At the two corners[ai] they must be doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So it will be for both. 25 So there are to be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.
26 “You are to make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, 27 and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames on the back of the tabernacle on the west. 28 The middle bar in the center of the frames will reach from end to end.[aj] 29 You are to overlay the frames with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold. 30 You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan[ak] that you were shown on the mountain.
31 “You are to make a special curtain[al] of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; it is to be made[am] with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer. 32 You are to hang it[an] with gold hooks[ao] on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set in[ap] four silver bases. 33 You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain.[aq] The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.[ar] 34 You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place. 35 You are to put the table outside the curtain and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle, opposite the table, and you are to place the table on the north side.
36 “You are to make a hanging[as] for the entrance of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer.[at] 37 You are to make for the hanging five posts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and their hooks will be[au] gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them.[av]
Footnotes
- Exodus 26:1 sn This chapter is given over to the details of the structure itself, the curtains, coverings, boards and walls and veil. The passage can be studied on one level for its function both practically and symbolically for Israel’s worship. On another level it can be studied for its typology, for the tabernacle and many of its parts speak of Christ. For this one should see the commentaries.
- Exodus 26:1 tn The word order in Hebrew thrusts the direct object to the front for particular emphasis. After the first couple of pieces of furniture are treated (chap. 25), attention turns to the tabernacle itself.
- Exodus 26:1 tn This is for the adverbial accusative explaining how the dwelling place is to be made.
- Exodus 26:1 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.
- Exodus 26:1 tn The construction is difficult in this line because of the word order. “Cherubim” is an adverbial accusative explaining how they were to make the curtains. And מַעֲשֵׂה חֹשֵׁב (maʿaseh khoshev) means literally “work of a designer”; it is in apposition to “cherubim.” The Hebrew participle means “designer” or “deviser” so that one could render this “of artistic designs in weaving” (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 280-81). B. Jacob says that it refers to “artistic weavers” (Exodus, 789).
- Exodus 26:2 tn Heb “one” (so KJV).
- Exodus 26:2 tn Heb “28 cubits” long and “4 cubits” wide.
- Exodus 26:3 tn This is the active participle, not the passive. It would normally be rendered “joining together.” The Bible uses the active because it has the result of the sewing in mind, namely, that every curtain accompanies another (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 348).
- Exodus 26:3 tn Heb “a woman to her sister,” this form of using nouns to express “one to another” is selected because “curtains” is a feminine noun (see GKC 448 §139.e).
- Exodus 26:3 tn The phrase “the other” has been supplied.
- Exodus 26:4 tn Here “loops” has been supplied.
- Exodus 26:5 tn Heb “a woman to her sister.”
- Exodus 26:6 tn Heb “one”; KJV “it shall be one tabernacle”; NRSV “that the tabernacle may be one whole”; NLT “a single unit.”
- Exodus 26:7 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).
- Exodus 26:7 sn This curtain will serve “for a tent over the tabernacle,” as a dwelling place.
- Exodus 26:7 tn Heb “you will make them”
- Exodus 26:8 tn Heb “one”
- Exodus 26:9 sn The text seems to describe this part as being in front of the tabernacle, hanging down to form a valence at the entrance (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 284).
- Exodus 26:11 tn Heb “one”
- Exodus 26:12 sn U. Cassuto (Exodus, 353) cites b. Shabbat 98b which says, “What did the tabernacle resemble? A woman walking on the street with her train trailing behind her.” In the expression “the half of the curtain that remains,” the verb agrees in gender with the genitive near it.
- Exodus 26:13 tn Literally “cubit.”
- Exodus 26:13 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).
- Exodus 26:14 sn Two outer coverings made of stronger materials will be put over the tent and the curtain, the two inner layers.
- Exodus 26:14 tn See the note on this phrase in Exod 25:5.
- Exodus 26:15 tn There is debate whether the word הַקְּרָשִׁים (haqqerashim) means “boards” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB) or “frames” (NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV) or “planks” (see Ezek 27:6) or “beams,” given the size of them. The literature on this includes M. Haran, “The Priestly Image of the Tabernacle,” HUCA 36 (1965): 192; B. A. Levine, “The Description of the Tabernacle Texts of the Pentateuch,” JAOS 85 (1965): 307-18; J. Morgenstern, “The Ark, the Ephod, and the Tent,” HUCA 17 (1942/43): 153-265; 18 (1943/44): 1-52.
- Exodus 26:15 tn “Wood” is an adverbial accusative.
- Exodus 26:15 tn The plural participle “standing” refers to how these items will be situated; they will be vertical rather than horizontal (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 354).
- Exodus 26:16 tn Heb “the frame.”
- Exodus 26:17 sn Heb “hands,” the reference is probably to projections that served as stays or supports. They may have been tenons, or pegs, projecting from the bottom of the frames to hold the frames in their sockets (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 286).
- Exodus 26:17 tn Or “being joined each to the other.”
- Exodus 26:18 tn Heb “on the south side southward.”
- Exodus 26:19 tn The clause is repeated to show the distributive sense; it literally says, “and two bases under the one frame for its two projections.”
- Exodus 26:22 tn Or “westward” (toward the sea).
- Exodus 26:23 sn The term rendered “corners” is “an architectural term for some kind of special corner structure. Here it seems to involve two extra supports, one at each corner of the western wall” (N. M. Sarna, Exodus [JPSTC], 170).
- Exodus 26:24 tn Heb “they will be for the two corners.” This is the last clause of the verse, moved forward for clarity.
- Exodus 26:28 sn These bars served as reinforcements to hold the upright frames together. The Hebrew term for these bars is also used of crossbars on gates (Judg 16:3; Neh 3:3).
- Exodus 26:30 tn The noun is מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat), often translated “judgment” or “decision” in other contexts. In those settings it may reflect its basic idea of custom, which here would be reflected with a rendering of “prescribed norm” or “plan.”
- Exodus 26:31 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).
- Exodus 26:31 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.
- Exodus 26:32 tn Heb “put it.”
- Exodus 26:32 tn This clause simply says “and their hooks gold,” but is taken as a circumstantial clause telling how the veil will be hung.
- Exodus 26:32 tn Heb “on four silver bases.”
- Exodus 26:33 tn The traditional expression is “within the veil,” literally “into the house (or area) of the (special) curtain.”
- Exodus 26:33 tn Or “the Holy of Holies.”
- Exodus 26:36 sn This was another curtain, serving as a screen in the entrance way. Since it was far away from the special curtain screening the Most Holy Place, it was less elaborate. It was not the work of the master designer, but of the “embroiderer,” and it did not have the cherubim on it.
- Exodus 26:36 tn The word רֹקֵם (roqem) refers to someone who made cloth with colors. It is not certain, however, whether the colors were woven into the fabric on the loom or applied with a needle; so “embroiderer” should be understood as an approximation (cf. HALOT 1290-91 s.v. רקם).
- Exodus 26:37 tn “will be” has been supplied.
- Exodus 26:37 sn In all the details of this chapter the expositor should pay attention to the overall message rather than engage in speculation concerning the symbolism of the details. It is, after all, the divine instruction for the preparation of the dwelling place for Yahweh. The point could be said this way: The dwelling place of Yahweh must be prepared in accordance with, and by the power of, his divine word. If God was to fellowship with his people, then the center of worship had to be made to his specifications, which were in harmony with his nature. Everything was functional for the approach to God through the ritual by divine provisions. But everything also reflected the nature of God, the symmetry, the order, the pure wood, the gold overlay, or (closer to God) the solid gold. And the symbolism of the light, the table, the veil, the cherubim—all of it was revelatory. All of it reflected the reality in heaven. Churches today do not retain the pattern and furnishings of the old tabernacle. However, they would do well to learn what God was requiring of Israel, so that their structures are planned in accordance with the theology of worship and the theology of access to God. Function is a big part, but symbolism and revelation instruct the planning of everything to be used. Christians live in the light of the fulfillment of Christ, and so they know the realities that the old foreshadowed. While a building is not necessary for worship (just as Israel worshiped in places other than the sanctuary), it is practical, and if there is going to be one, then the most should be made of it in the teaching and worshiping of the assembly. This chapter, then, provides an inspiration for believers on preparing a functional, symbolical, ordered place of worship that is in harmony with the word of God. And there is much to be said for making it as beautiful and uplifting as is possible—as a gift of freewill offering to God. Of course, the most important part of preparing a place of worship is the preparing of the heart. Worship, to be acceptable to God, must be in Christ. He said that when the temple was destroyed he would raise it up in three days. While he referred to his own body, he also alluded to the temple by the figure. When they put Jesus to death, they were destroying the temple; at his resurrection he would indeed begin a new form of worship. He is the tent, the curtain, the atonement, that the sanctuary foreshadowed. And then, believers also (when they receive Christ) become the temple of the Lord. So the NT will take the imagery and teaching of this chapter in a number of useful ways that call for more study. This does not, however, involve allegorization of the individual tabernacle parts.
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