The Courtyard

"Then make a courtyard for the Tabernacle, enclosed with curtains made from fine-twined linen. On the south side the curtains will stretch for 150 feet, and be held up by twenty posts, fitting into twenty bronze post holders. The curtains will be held up with silver hooks attached to silver rods, attached to the posts. It will be the same on the north side of the court--150 feet of curtains held up by twenty posts fitted into bronze sockets, with silver hooks and rods. The west side of the court will be seventy-five feet wide, with ten posts and ten sockets. The east side will also be seventy-five feet. On each side of the entrance there will be 22½ feet of curtain, held up by three posts inbedded in three sockets.

"The entrance to the court will be a thirty-foot-wide curtain, made of beautifully embroidered blue, purple, and scarlet fine-twined linen, and attached to four posts imbedded in their four sockets. All the posts around the court are to be connected by silver rods, using silver hooks, the posts being imbedded in solid bronze bases. So the entire court will be 150 feet long, and 75 feet wide, with curtain walls 7½ feet high, made from fine-twined linen.

"All utensils used in the work of the Tabernacle, including all the pins and pegs for hanging the utensils on the walls, will be made of bronze."

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TEXT SOURCE: (Exodus 27:9-19) The Children's Living Bible, ©1970 Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton Illinois 60187
TITLE SOURCE: The New Student Bible, ©1992 Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids Michigan 49530