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Read›Exodus›Chapter 36

The Ten Curtains for the Tabernacle

Exodus 36:9

In 10 translations

BSB
Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.Each of the ten curtains was approximately 42 feet long and 6 feet wide (12.8 meters long and 1.8 meters wide).
KJV
The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
WEB
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
ASV
The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one measure.
LSV
The length of one curtain [is] twenty-eight by the cubit, and the breadth of one curtain [is] four by the cubit; one measure [is] for all the curtains.
YLT
The length of the one curtain [is] eight and twenty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit; one measure [is] to all the curtains.
DBY
The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits — one measure for all the curtains.
DRC
The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth four: all the curtains were of the same size.
GNV
The length of one curtaine was twentie and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtaine foure cubites: and the curtaines were all of one cise.
JPS
The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had one measure.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֹ֜רֶךְ הַיְרִיעָ֣ה הָֽאַחַ֗ת שְׁמֹנֶ֤ה וְעֶשְׂרִים֙ בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה וְרֹ֨חַב֙ אַרְבַּ֣ע בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה הַיְרִיעָ֖ה הָאֶחָ֑ת מִדָּ֥ה אַחַ֖ת לְכָל־הַיְרִיעֹֽת׃

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  • 37:2b in some Bibles

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