Tanak Foundations-Concepts in Exodus-Chapter 26

Exo 26.1-37 will tell us about the curtains for the Mishkan; the curtain and coverings for the tent; the boards for the Mishkan; the veil or paroket. Keep in mind through all of the teachings on the Mishkan that it is a picture of the spiritual house God is building (1 Pet 2.5).

v 1…Moreover you shall make the tabernacle (mishkan) with ten curtains of fine twisted linen (shesh meaning symbolizes Yeshua as human-Luke); and blue (techelet symbolizing Yeshua as the son of God from heaven-John) and purple (argamon symbolizing Yeshua as king-Matthew) scarlet (tola shanni symbolizing Yeshua s the suffering servant-Mark) material (all of wool); and make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman (designer or pattern weaver; all these threads are interconnected like the universe whose stars can’t be numbered).

v 2…The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits (19.2 inches a cubit); and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have one measure (of equal length of 44.8 feet and width of 32 feet).

v 3…Five curtains shall be joined (coupled) one to another; and the other five curtains shall be joined one to another.

v 4…And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of one curtain (50 loops) that is outermost in the first set, and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

v 5…You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite each other.

v 6…And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps, that the tabernacle may be one (Hebrew “echad” and the same word used in Deut 6.4).

v 7…Then you shall make curtains (a second layer) of goats hair (for protection from the weather; alludes to the outward appearance of Yeshua) for a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven curtains in all (because of the doorway-v 9)

v 8…The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits, these curtains shall have the same measurements (these were made with six strands of linen, blue, argamon and scarlet; 6 x 4 is 24 parts to make one thread; Israel is divided into 24 districts; the kohanim into 24 courses; Israel is represented by each thread).

v 9…And you shall join curtains by themselves, and the other curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.

v 10…And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of one curtain that is outermost in the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

v 11…And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and you shall put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together, that it may be a unit (echad/one).

v 12…And the overlapping part that is left over in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back of the tabernacle (the west side).

v 13…And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side, of what is left over in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall lap over the sides of the tabernacle on one side and the other side, to cover it.

v 14…And you shall make a covering for the tent of ram’s skins dyed red (“m’adumim” and related to the word Adam), and a covering of sealskins (may be a marine animal called a “dugong” which was plentiful in the Red Sea, 12 to 30 feet long and easily caught as they graze on sea weed) above.

v 15…Then you shall make the boards of the tabernacle of acacia wood standing upright (just as they grew).

v 16…Ten cubits shall be the length of each board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.

v 17…There shall be two tenons for each board (projecting pegs that fitted into sockets), fitted to one another, thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle.

v 18…And you shall make the boards of the tabernacle twenty boards for the south side.

v 19…And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for the two tenons;

v 20…and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,

v 21…and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.

v 22…And for the rear of the tabernacle, to the west, you shall make six (number of man) boards (see our study in Heb 6.18, 24, 7.14 for an eschatological picture relating to the cities of refuge and Yeshua)

v 23…And you shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear.

v 24…And they shall be double beneath (at the bottom of the boards) , and together they shall be complete to its top to the first ring; thus it shall be with both of them; they shall form the two corners.

v 25…And there shall be eight boards (a new beginning) with their sockets of silver (redemption), sixteen (Jew and non-Jew) sockets; two (two witnesses) sockets under the one board and two sockets under another board.

v 26…Then you shall make bars (to keep the whole as one) of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle,

v 27…and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the rear to the west (four bars will supplement the middle bar that goes from one end to the other in a chiastic structure; also alludes to the five functions of the congregation in Eph 4.11 and Eph 4.16).

v 28…And the middle bar (alludes to Yeshua as the shammash and the vine) in the center of the boards shall pass through from end to end (speaks of Yeshua from eternity-Mic 5.2; Rev 22.13; John 1.1-3; holding all things together-Col 1.17).

v 29…And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

v 30…Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan (“mishpato” or judgment) which you have been shown in the mountain.

v 31…And you shall make a veil (“paroket”; this veil separated between the two main levels of kedusha) of blue (techelet) and purple (argamon) and scarlet (tola shanni) and fine twisted linen (shesh-see v 1 notes), it shall be made with cherubim (as guardians like in Eden-Gen 3.24; Heb 10.19), the work of a skillful workman (designer or pattern weaver).

v 32…And you shall hang it on four pillars (separating the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place) of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks of gold (God), on four sockets of silver (redemption is from God).

v 33…And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring in the ark of the testimony there within the veil, and the veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies (between levels of kedusha).

v 34…And you shall put the mercy seat (kipporet) on the ark of the testimony (the ten words or commandments) in the holy of holies).

v 35…And you shall set the table (the Shulchan ha Lechem ha Pannim) outside the the veil, and the lampstand (Menorah) opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south and you shall put the table on the north side.

v 36…And you shall make a screen (similar to the veil but with no cherubim on it) for the doorway (at the east of the Mishkan which stood open) of the tent of blue (techelt) and purple (argomon) and scarlet (tola shanni) and fine twisted lined (shesh), the work of a weaver.

v 37…And you shall make five pillars of acacia for the screen and overlay them with gold, their hooks of gold; and you shall cast five sockets of bronze (metal of judgment) for them.

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