Exodus 38:9-20

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The Courtyard of the Holy Tent^(A)

⁹ Then he made ·a wall of curtains to form a courtyard around the Holy Tent [the court]. On the south side the curtains were ·one hundred fifty feet [^Lone hundred cubits] long and were made of fine linen. ¹⁰ The curtains hung on silver hooks and bands, placed on twenty bronze ·posts [pillars] with twenty bronze bases. ¹¹ On the north side the wall of curtains was also ·one hundred fifty feet [^Lone hundred cubits] long, and it hung on silver hooks and bands on twenty ·posts [pillars] with twenty bronze bases.

¹² On the west side of the courtyard, the wall of curtains was ·seventy-five feet [^Lfifty cubits] long. It was held up by silver hooks and bands on ten ·posts [pillars] with ten bases. ¹³ The [^Lfront of the] east side was also ·seventy-five feet [^Lfifty cubits] long. ¹⁴ On one side of the entry there was a wall of curtains ·twenty-two and one-half feet [^Lfifteen cubits] long, held up by three ·posts [pillars] and three bases. ¹⁵ On the other side of the entry there was also a wall of curtains ·twenty-two and one-half feet [^Lfifteen cubits] long, held up by three ·posts [pillars] and three bases. ¹⁶ All the curtains around the courtyard were made of fine linen. ¹⁷ The bases for the ·posts [pillars] were made of bronze. The hooks and the bands on the ·posts [pillars] were made of silver, and the tops of the ·posts [pillars] were ·covered [overlaid] with silver also. All the ·posts [pillars] in the courtyard had silver bands.

¹⁸ The ·curtain [screen] for the ·entry [gate] of the courtyard was made of blue, purple, and ·red [scarlet] thread, and fine linen, ·sewn by a person who could sew well [embroidered with needlework]. The curtain was ·thirty feet [^Ltwenty cubits] long and ·seven and one-half feet [^Lfive cubits] high, the same height as the curtains around the courtyard. ¹⁹ It was held up by four ·posts [pillars] and four bronze bases. The hooks and bands on the posts were made of silver, and the tops on the ·posts [pillars] were ·covered [overlaid] with silver. ²⁰ All the tent pegs for the ·Holy Tent [Tabernacle] and for the curtains around the courtyard were made of bronze.