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Exodus 26:31

29 Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

30 So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

32 Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.

33 And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
KJV
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
WEB
“You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman.
ASV
And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made.
DARBY
And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus; of artistic work shall it be made, with cherubim.
BLB
And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarn, and finely woven linen, the work of a designer; cherubim he shall make on it.
ÅB
Så skal du gjøre et forheng av blå og purpurrød og karmosinrød ull og fint, tvunnet lingarn; det skal gjøres i kunstvevning med kjeruber på.
OTB
"Lag et forheng av blått, purpur og skarlagenrødt garn og fint tvunnet lin, med kjeruber vevd inn i det av en dyktig håndverker.
B1930
Så skal du gjøre et forheng av blå og purpurrød og karmosinrød ull og fint, tvunnet lingarn; det skal gjøres i kunstvevning med kjeruber på.

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Cross references

  • Matthew 27:51

    At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.

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  • 2 Chronicles 3:14

    He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.

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  • Exodus 36:35

    Next, he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

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  • Exodus 36:8

    All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

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  • Leviticus 16:2

    And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

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  • Exodus 26:1

    “You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.

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  • Exodus 25:18

    Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,

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  • Exodus 40:21

    Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.

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