Exodus 39:4

39:4 They made shoulder pieces for it, attached to two of its corners, so it could be joined together.

Exodus 28:7

28:7 It is to have two shoulder pieces attached to two of its corners, so it can be joined together. ¹ 

Exodus 26:3

26:3 Five curtains are to be joined, ²  one to another, ³  and the other ⁴  five curtains are to be joined, one to another.

Exodus 36:10

36:10 He joined ⁵  five of the curtains to one another, and the other ⁶  five curtains he joined to one another.

Exodus 36:16

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

Exodus 36:18

36:18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit. ⁷ 

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. ⁸ 

Exodus 26:9

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

Exodus 26:11

26:11 You are to make fifty bronze clasps and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it is a unit. ¹⁰ 

Exodus 36:13

36:13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit. ¹¹ 

¹ tn Here the Pual perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive provides the purpose clause (equal to a final imperfect); the form follows the use of the active participle, “attached” or more Heb “joining.”

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 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.

¹ tn The construction uses the infinitive construct from the verb “to be” to express this purpose clause: “to be one,” or, “so that it might be a unit.”

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

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”

¹ tn Heb “one.”