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The Darby Translation

Exodus 36:16

And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Curtains;   Israel;   Tabernacle;   Tapestry;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Goat, the;   Tabernacle;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Curtain;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Curtains;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Couple;   Tabernacle;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
King James Version
And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
Lexham English Bible
And he joined five curtains together and six curtains together.
New Century Version
The workers sewed five curtains together into one set and six together into another set.
New English Translation
He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves.
Amplified Bible
Bezalel joined five curtains by themselves and [the other] six curtains by themselves.
New American Standard Bible
He joined five curtains by themselves, and the other six curtains by themselves.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee coupled fiue curtaines by themselues, and sixe curtaines by themselues:
Legacy Standard Bible
He joined five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves.
Contemporary English Version
These eleven sections were joined to make two panels, one with five and the other with six sections.
Complete Jewish Bible
He joined five sheets together and six sheets together.
Easy-to-Read Version
The workers joined five curtains together into one group and six curtains together into another group.
English Standard Version
He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
George Lamsa Translation
And they coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
Good News Translation
They sewed five of them together in one set and the other six in another set.
Christian Standard Bible®
He joined five of the curtains together, and the other six together.
Literal Translation
And he joined the five curtains separately, and the six curtains separately.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& coupled fyue together by them selues, and sixe by them selues,
American Standard Version
And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
Bible in Basic English
Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he coupled fiue curtaynes by the selues, and sixe by them selues.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
King James Version (1611)
And he coupled fiue curtaines by themselues, and sixe curtaines by themselues.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They made the oracle square and double, the length of a span, and the breadth of a span, —double.
English Revised Version
And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
Berean Standard Bible
He joined five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of whiche saies he ioynede fyue bi hem silf, and sixe othere bi hem silf.
Young's Literal Translation
and he joineth the five curtains apart, and the six curtains apart.
Update Bible Version
And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
World English Bible
He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
New King James Version
He coupled five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves.
New Living Translation
Bezalel joined five of these curtains together to make one long curtain, and the other six were joined to make a second long curtain.
New Life Bible
He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves.
New Revised Standard
He joined five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he joined five of the curtains by themselves, - and the six curtains, by themselves.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Five of which he joined apart, and the other six apart.
Revised Standard Version
He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He joined five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves.

Contextual Overview

14 And he made curtains of goats' [hair] for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them. 15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain—one measure for the eleven curtains. 16 And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he on the edge of the curtain in the other coupling. 18 And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one. 19 And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above [that]. 20 And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up; 21 ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board; 22 two tenons in one board, connected one with the other: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 23 And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward;

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Exodus 15:15
Then the princes of Edom were amazed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them; All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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