Exodus 36:16

36:16 He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves.

Exodus 26:9

26:9 You are to join five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. You are to double over ¹  the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.

Exodus 26:2-3

26:2 The length of each ²  curtain is to be forty-two feet, and the width of each curtain is to be six feet ³  – the same size for each of the curtains. 26:3 Five curtains are to be joined, ⁴  one to another, ⁵  and the other ⁶  five curtains are to be joined, one to another.

Exodus 26:6

26:6 You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit. ⁷ 

Exodus 36:9-10

36:9 The length of one curtain was forty-two feet, and the width of one curtain was six feet – the same size for each of the curtains. 36:10 He joined ⁸  five of the curtains to one another, and the other ⁹  five curtains he joined to one another.

¹ sn The text seems to describe this part as being in front of the tabernacle, hanging down to form a valence at the entrance (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 284).

¹ tn Heb “one” (so KJV).

² tn Heb “twenty-eight cubits” long and “four cubits” wide.

¹ tn This is the active participle, not the passive. It would normally be rendered “joining together.” The Bible uses the active because it has the result of the sewing in mind, namely, that every curtain accompanies another (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 348).

² tn Heb “a woman to her sister,” this form of using nouns to express “one to another” is selected because “curtains” is a feminine noun (see GKC 448 §139.e).

³ tn The phrase “the other” has been supplied.

¹ tn Heb “one”; KJV “it shall be one tabernacle”; NRSV “that the tabernacle may be one whole”; NLT “a single unit.”

¹ tn The verb is singular since it probably is referring to Bezalel, but since he would not do all the work himself, it may be that the verbs could be given a plural subject: “they joined.”

² tn The words “the other” have been supplied.