What Does Exodus 26:10 Mean?
And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the joining, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which joins the second.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.THE KEY
The curtains meet at their edges: the sanctuary takes shape where separate coverings are prepared to join.
THE MEANING
Each curtain carries matching loops at the boundary where it meets its counterpart. The pieces remain distinct, yet their prepared joining makes one covering.
THE ROOT
חֹבֶרֶת
ḥōvereṯ
GROWS FROM
חבר
ḥābar
To join, unite, or associate.
“joining / joins” in this verse is ḥōvereṯ. The Hebrew root also gives חָבֵר (chaver), meaning a companion: joining is a relation between distinct parts, not their disappearance. The loops make that relation tangible at the edge, where separate curtains meet as one covering.
ALSO GROWS
chaver: Companion or associate.
חָבֵר
The curtain’s coupling carries the same joining idea as companionship: distinct parts are related to one another.
chaburah: Company or band.
חֲבֻרָה
A company is a gathering of joined members; here, the curtains form a covering by being joined at their edges.
THE PATTERN
A shared dwelling takes shape as distinct parts join at their meeting points.
And you shall make fifty taches of gold, and join the curtains together with the taches; and it shall be one dwelling.A Song of degrees of David. Look, how good and how sweet it is for brothers to settle also together!In whom the whole building, joined at the joints, grows into a set-apart temple in the Lord.THE THREAD
And you shall make fifty taches of gold, and join the curtains together with the taches; and it shall be one dwelling.The Hebrew root חבר (ḥābar, to join) appears as “couple” in both verses. This verse locates the loops at the curtains’ edges; verse 6 shows what that joining makes: one tabernacle.
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