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The Eleven Curtains of Goat Hair

Exodus 26:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.Each of the eleven curtains was approximately 45 feet long and 6 feet wide (13.7 meters long and 1.8 meters wide).
KJV
The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.
WEB
The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
ASV
The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
LSV
the length of one curtain [is] thirty by the cubit, and the breadth of one curtain [is] four by the cubit; one measure [is] for the eleven curtains;
YLT
the length of the one curtain [is] thirty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit; one measure [is] to the eleven curtains;
DBY
The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits — one measure for the eleven curtains.
DRC
The length of one hair curtain shall be thirty cubits: and the breadth four: the measure of all the curtains shall be equal.
GNV
The length of a curtaine shall be thirtie cubites, and the breadth of a curtaine foure cubites: the eleuen curtaines shalbe of one measure.
JPS
The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
LXXE
The length of one skin thirty cubits, and the breadth of one skin four cubits: there shall be the same measure to the eleven skins.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֹ֣רֶךְ ׀ הַיְרִיעָ֣ה הָֽאַחַ֗ת שְׁלֹשִׁים֙ בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה וְרֹ֨חַב֙ אַרְבַּ֣ע בָּאַמָּ֔ה הַיְרִיעָ֖ה הָאֶחָ֑ת מִדָּ֣ה אַחַ֔ת לְעַשְׁתֵּ֥י עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה יְרִיעֹֽת׃
LXX-Br
Τὸ μῆκος τῆς δέῤῥεως τῆς μιᾶς, τριάκοντα πήχεων, καὶ τεσσάρων πήχεων τὸ εὖρος τῆς δέῤῥεως τῆς μιᾶς· τὸ αὐτὸ μέτρον ἔσται ταῖς ἕνδεκα δέῤῥεσι.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 26:13And the tent curtains will be a cubit longer on either side, and the excess will hang over the sides of the tabernacle to cover it.
  • Exodus 26:2Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide —all curtains the same size.

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