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Êxodo 26

BLIVRE · Chapter 26/40

1E farás o tabernáculo de dez cortinas de linho torcido, azul, e púrpura, e carmesim: e farás querubins de obra delicada.

2O comprimento da uma cortina de vinte e oito côvados, e a largura da mesma cortina de quatro côvados: todas as cortinas terão uma medida.

3Cinco cortinas estarão juntas a uma com a outra, e cinco cortinas unidas a uma com a outra.

4E farás laçadas de azul na beira da uma cortina, na margem, na juntura: e assim farás na beira da última cortina na juntura segunda.

5Cinquenta laçadas farás na uma cortina, e cinquenta laçadas farás na margem da cortina que está na segunda juntura: as laçadas estarão contrapostas a uma à outra.

6Farás também cinquenta colchetes de ouro, com os quais juntarás as cortinas a uma com a outra, e se formará um tabernáculo.

7Farás também cortinas de pelo de cabras para uma tenda sobre o tabernáculo; onze cortinas farás.

8O comprimento de uma cortina será de trinta côvados, e a largura da mesma cortina de quatro côvados: uma medida terão as onze cortinas.

9E juntarás as cinco cortinas à parte e as outras seis cortinas separadamente; e dobrarás a sexta cortina diante da face do tabernáculo.

10E farás cinquenta laçadas na orla de uma cortina, à extremidade na juntura, e cinquenta laçadas na orla da segunda cortina na outra juntura.

11Farás também cinquenta colchetes de alambre, os quais meterás pelas laçadas: e juntarás a tenda, para que se faça uma só cobertura.

12E o excedente que resulta nas cortinas da tenda, a metade da uma cortina que sobra, ficará às costas do tabernáculo.

13E um côvado da uma parte, e outro côvado da outra que sobra no comprimento das cortinas da tenda, pendurará sobre os lados do tabernáculo da uma parte e da outra, para cobri-lo.

14Farás também à tenda uma coberta de couros de carneiros, tingidos de vermelho, e uma coberta de couros finos encima.

15E farás para o tabernáculo tábuas de madeira de acácia, que estejam na vertical.

16O comprimento de cada tábua será de dez côvados, e de côvado e meio a largura de cada tábua.

17Dois encaixes terá cada tábua, unidos um com o outro; assim farás todas as tábuas do tabernáculo.

18Farás, pois, as tábuas do tabernáculo: vinte tábuas ao lado do sul.

19E farás quarenta bases de prata debaixo das vinte tábuas; duas bases debaixo de uma tábua para seus dois encaixes, e duas bases debaixo da outra tábua para seus dois encaixes.

20E ao outro lado do tabernáculo, à parte do norte, vinte tábuas;

21E suas quarenta bases de prata: duas bases debaixo de uma tábua, e duas bases debaixo da outra tábua.

22E para o lado do tabernáculo, ao ocidente, farás seis tábuas.

23Farás também duas tábuas para as esquinas do tabernáculo nos dois ângulos posteriores;

24Os quais se unirão por abaixo, e também se juntarão por seu alto a uma argola: assim será das outras duas que estarão às duas esquinas.

25De maneira que serão oito tábuas, com suas bases de prata, dezesseis bases; duas bases debaixo de uma tábua, e duas bases debaixo da outra tábua.

26Farás também cinco barras de madeira de acácia, para as tábuas de um lado do tabernáculo,

27E cinco barras para as tábuas do outro lado do tabernáculo, e cinco barras para o outro lado do tabernáculo, que está ao ocidente.

28E a barra do meio passará por meio das tábuas, de uma extremidade à outra.

29E cobrirás as tábuas de ouro, e farás seus anéis de ouro para meter por eles as barras: também cobrirás as barras de ouro.

30E levantarás o tabernáculo conforme sua planta que te foi mostrada no monte.

31E farás também um véu de azul, e púrpura, e carmesim, e de linho torcido: será feito de primoroso trabalho, com querubins:

32E hás de pô-lo sobre quatro colunas de madeira de acácia cobertas de ouro; seus capitéis de ouro, sobre bases de prata.

33E porás o véu debaixo dos colchetes, e meterás ali, do véu dentro, a arca do testemunho; e aquele véu vos fará separação entre o lugar santo e o santíssimo.

34E porás a coberta sobre a arca do testemunho no lugar santíssimo.

35E porás a mesa fora do véu, e o candelabro em frente da mesa ao lado do tabernáculo ao sul; e porás a mesa ao lado do norte.

36E farás à porta do tabernáculo uma cortina de azul, e púrpura, e carmesim, e linho torcido, obra de bordador.

37E farás para a cortina cinco colunas de madeira de acácia, as quais cobrirás de ouro, com seus capitéis de ouro: e as farás de fundição cinco bases de bronze.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Instructions are given in detail for building the curtains, boards, and veils that would form the physical structure of the tabernacle, including the separation between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.

Explanation

This chapter continues the technical instructions for building the tabernacle, now focusing on the physical structure that would house the sacred objects described in the previous chapter. The careful layering of curtains (fine embroidered linen, goats' hair, dyed rams' skins, badgers' skins) created a sanctuary that was portable yet dignified and protected against the elements of the desert. The veil separating the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place, embroidered with cherubim, physically established the distinction between God's closest presence (where the ark stood) and the rest of the sacred space, reflecting the idea that access to God's utmost holiness required careful, reverent separation. This structure, though temporary and mobile, would later be replaced by a permanent, monumental version in Solomon's temple, but the spiritual principles of separation and holiness established here would remain constant.

Fun facts

  • The veil separating the Most Holy Place, mentioned in this chapter, is the same kind of structure (though in a later, larger version in the Jerusalem temple) that, according to the Gospels, tore 'from the top to the bottom' at the moment of Jesus' death (Matthew 27:51), symbolizing for Christians a renewed and direct access to God's presence.
  • The detailed dimensions and proportions of the tabernacle, when compared by archaeologists and historians to other portable sanctuaries from ancient Egypt and the Near East, show technical construction similarities to royal ceremonial tents of the period, suggesting that the technology described was plausible and contemporary to the time of the Exodus.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Êxodo 26:1The tabernacle’s inner walls were, in practice, large fabric curtains embroidered with cherub figures, not rigid walls. They were hung over a wooden frame covered in gold, forming an enclosed space inside the large tent.
  2. Êxodo 26:2Each of the tabernacle’s ten inner curtains measured about 42 feet long by 6 feet wide, standardized measurements so they would fit together perfectly.
  3. Êxodo 26:3The ten curtains were sewn into two large panels of five, forming two bigger pieces before being joined to each other.
  4. Êxodo 26:4Loops of blue fabric along the edges of each panel served as attachment points for the gold clasps described in the next verse.
  5. Êxodo 26:5Fifty loops on each side ensured that the two panels lined up perfectly when they were joined.
  6. Êxodo 26:6Gold clasps fastened the loops of the two panels, turning the ten separate curtains into a single continuous covering for the tabernacle.
  7. Êxodo 26:7Over this embroidered inner covering, a second, sturdier layer made of goats’ hair served as the outer protective tent.
  8. Êxodo 26:8The eleven goat-hair curtains were a little larger than the inner ones, giving enough slack to cover the whole structure from above.
  9. Êxodo 26:9These eleven curtains were divided into groups of five and six, with the sixth doubled over at the front of the tent, forming a kind of flap at the entrance.
  10. Êxodo 26:10The same system of loops used on the inner curtains was repeated here, allowing the two groups of goat-hair curtains to be joined.
  11. Êxodo 26:11Unlike the inner curtains, which used gold clasps, this outer layer was fastened with bronze clasps, a material more resistant to the weather.
  12. Êxodo 26:12The extra length of the goat-hair curtain, being a little longer than the inner ones, hung over and covered the back of the tabernacle.
  13. Êxodo 26:13Likewise, the side overhang of this outer curtain hung down along the sides of the structure, ensuring the inner curtains stayed protected.
  14. Êxodo 26:14Outside the embroidered curtains and the goat-hair canvas, the tabernacle also had two more layers of weather protection: ram skins dyed red and, over everything, a tougher layer (the “badgers’ skins,” probably the hide of a sea animal) to protect against the desert’s rain and sun.
  15. Êxodo 26:15Besides the curtains, the tabernacle had a rigid frame of acacia boards set upright, forming the tent’s inner walls.
  16. Êxodo 26:16Each board measured about 15 feet high by roughly 2 feet 3 inches wide, standardized dimensions for the whole structure.
  17. Êxodo 26:17Fittings at the base of each board, like tenons, allowed them to connect firmly to one another along the wall.
  18. Êxodo 26:18Twenty of these boards made up the south side of the tabernacle, one of the longer walls of the rectangular structure.
  19. Êxodo 26:19Each board rested on two silver sockets, fitted onto the tenons at its base, giving the whole wall stability and level footing.
  20. Êxodo 26:20The north side of the tabernacle was built identically to the south side, with another twenty boards in the same configuration.
  21. Êxodo 26:21The silver sockets on the north side followed exactly the same pattern as the south side, two for each board.
  22. Êxodo 26:22The back wall of the tabernacle, facing west, was narrower, made up of only six boards.
  23. Êxodo 26:23Two extra boards, placed specifically at the rear corners, gave structural reinforcement where the side and back walls met.
  24. Êxodo 26:24These corner boards were fitted together in a special way, joined at both the base and the top by a ring, reinforcing where the walls met.
  25. Êxodo 26:25In total, the west wall came to eight boards, each resting on two silver sockets, following the pattern of the other walls.
  26. Êxodo 26:26Horizontal bars of acacia wood ran across the boards on each side, binding the whole structure together and keeping it from coming apart.
  27. Êxodo 26:27The same system of bars was repeated on all three sides of the structure, south, north, and west, giving stability to the whole set of boards.
  28. Êxodo 26:28A longer central bar ran across the boards from end to end, further reinforcing the rigidity of each wall.
  29. Êxodo 26:29Like other pieces of the tabernacle, the boards and bars also received an overlay of gold, with gold rings to hold the bars in place.
  30. Êxodo 26:30Repeats the requirement to follow exactly the pattern shown to Moses on the mountain, this time applied to assembling the board structure.
  31. Êxodo 26:31A veil embroidered with cherubim, made of the same colored fabrics used in the inner curtains, marked the most important division inside the tabernacle.
  32. Êxodo 26:32The veil was hung on four acacia pillars overlaid with gold, resting on silver sockets, physically separating the two parts of the sanctuary.
  33. Êxodo 26:33The tabernacle had two rooms: a larger one, the “holy place,” where the priests entered for daily service, and a smaller one, the “most holy” place, where only the ark stood. This veil separated the two, and only the high priest could pass through it, and only once a year.
  34. Êxodo 26:34The ark’s golden lid, the mercy seat, was placed specifically inside the innermost, most sacred space, set apart by the veil.
  35. Êxodo 26:35The table of bread and the lampstand stood outside the veil, on opposite sides of the sanctuary’s main space, one to the north and the other to the south.
  36. Êxodo 26:36An embroidered curtain, similar to the inner veil but a separate piece, covered the entrance of the tent, marking the division between the sanctuary and the outer area.
  37. Êxodo 26:37This entrance curtain was held up by five acacia pillars overlaid with gold, resting on bronze sockets, unlike the silver sockets of the inner veil.

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