Bible Chapter Summary
Exodus 26 Summary
Instructions for the Tabernacle Structure
God gives Moses precise instructions for constructing the tabernacle, beginning with ten inner curtains of fine twined linen woven in blue, purple, and scarlet with cherubim designs, joined in two sets of five by fifty gold taches. Over these, eleven curtains of goats' hair form an outer tent, fastened by fifty brass taches, with outer coverings of rams' skins dyed red and badgers' skins on top. The wooden framework consists of boards of shittim wood fitted into silver sockets along the south, north, and west sides, held together by gold-overlaid bars of shittim wood. Finally, God prescribes a richly embroidered veil of blue, purple, and scarlet linen hung on four gold-overlaid pillars to divide the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place, and a similarly crafted hanging for the tent's entrance supported by five pillars.
Key themes
Key verses
Exodus 26:1
“Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.”
Exodus 26:6
“And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.”
Exodus 26:33
“And thou shalt hang up the veil under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.”
Exodus 26:30
“And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.”
Read Exodus 26 in full
Study the complete chapter with interlinear Hebrew & Greek, verse-by-verse, in the Gospel Daily reader.
Open the full chapter