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Making the Court of the Tabernacle

He made the court; for the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twisted linen, one hundred cubits long;(A)

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The Court and Its Hangings

“You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twisted linen one hundred cubits long for that side;(A) 10 its twenty pillars and their twenty bases shall be of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.(B) 11 Likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver. 12 For the width of the court on the west side there shall be fifty cubits of hangings, with ten pillars and ten bases. 13 The width of the court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits. 14 There shall be fifteen cubits of hangings on one side, with three pillars and three bases.(C) 15 There shall be fifteen cubits of[a] hangings on the other side, with three pillars and three bases. 16 For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns and of fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework; it shall have four pillars and with them four bases.(D) 17 All the pillars around the court shall be banded with silver; their hooks shall be of silver and their bases of bronze. 18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, the width fifty, and the height five cubits, with hangings of fine twisted linen and bases of bronze. 19 All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.

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Footnotes

  1. 27.15 Gk Sam: MT lacks cubits of

Enter his gates with thanksgiving
    and his courts with praise.
    Give thanks to him; bless his name.(A)

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13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in the courts of our God.

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a God feared in the council of the holy ones,
    great and awesome[a] above all who are around him?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 89.7 Gk Syr: Heb greatly awesome

10 For a day in your courts is better
    than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than live in the tents of wickedness.(A)

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My soul longs, indeed it faints,
    for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh sing for joy
    to the living God.(A)

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36 He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stone to one course of cedar beams.(A)

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33 He set up the court around the tabernacle and the altar and put up the screen at the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

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You shall set up the court all around and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.

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