27:9 “You are to make the courtyard 6 of the tabernacle. For the south side 7 there are to be hangings 8 for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long for one side, 9
1 tn The word literally means “shoulder.” The next words, “of the gate,” have been supplied here and in v. 15. The east end would contain the courtyard’s entry with a wall of curtains on each side of the entry (see v. 16).
2 tn Here “will be” has been supplied.
1 tn Heb “shoulder.”
2 tn Here the phrase “there will be” has been supplied.
1 tn The word literally means “shoulder.” The next words, “of the gate,” have been supplied here. The east end contained the courtyard’s entry with a wall of curtains on each side of the entry (see v. 15).
1 tn Or “enclosure” (TEV).
2 tn Heb “south side southward.”
3 tn Or “curtains.”
4 sn The entire courtyard of 150 feet by 75 feet was to be enclosed by a curtain wall held up with posts in bases. All these hangings were kept in place by a cord and tent pegs.
1 tn Heb “and thus.”
2 tn Here the phrase “there will be” has been supplied.
3 sn These bands have been thought by some to refer to connecting rods joining the tops of the posts. But it is more likely that they are bands or bind rings surrounding the posts at the base of the capitals (see 38:17).
1 tn The phrase “there were” has been supplied.
2 tn The text simply has “their posts ten and their bases ten”; this may be added here as a circumstantial clause with the main sentence in order to make sense out of the construction.
1 tn Heb “from this and from this” (cf, 17:12; 25:19; 26:13; 32:15; Josh 8:22, 33; 1 Kgs 10:19-20; Ezek 45:7).