Exodus 26:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

Loops - х lul'ot (H3924); Septuagint, angkulai].

Upon the edge, х `al (H5921) sªpat (H8193)] on the lip; metaphorically, border, margin. It appears from this description that ten curtains were made of equal dimensions, and afterward sewed together into great curtains, each comprising five of the smaller ones-that at the extremities of these two large curtains were attached fifty loops of blue (blue silk-old English Bibles), corresponding to the same number of golden taches or hooks; and that when coupled by these fastenings it became one tabernacle.

Exodus 26:4

4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.