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Good News Translation

Exodus 38:14

On each side of the entrance there were 7½ yards of curtains, with three posts and three bases.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Silver;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
King James Version
The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Lexham English Bible
fifteen cubits of hangings were to the shoulder, with their three pillars and their three bases,
New Century Version
On one side of the entry there was a wall of curtains twenty-two and one-half feet long, held up by three posts and three bases.
New English Translation
with hangings on one side of the gate that were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases,
Amplified Bible
The curtains for one side of the court gate were fifteen cubits, with their three support poles and their three sockets;
New American Standard Bible
The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases,
Geneva Bible (1587)
The hangings of the one side were fifteene cubites, their three pillars, and their three sockets:
Legacy Standard Bible
The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases,
Complete Jewish Bible
The tapestries for the one side [of the gateway] were twenty-two-and-a-half feet long, hung on three posts in three sockets;
Darby Translation
the hangings on the one wing of fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their bases three;
Easy-to-Read Version
On one side of the entrance the wall of curtains was 15 cubits long. There were three posts and three bases on this side.
English Standard Version
The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases.
George Lamsa Translation
The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Christian Standard Bible®
the hangings on one side of the gate were 22½ feet, including their three posts and their three bases.
Literal Translation
curtains of fifteen cubits to the side, their pillars three and their sockets three.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fiftene cubytes vpon either syde of the courte dore, wt thre pilers and thre sokettes:
American Standard Version
The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
Bible in Basic English
The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The hangynges of the one syde of the gate were fifteene cubites long, with three pillers and three sockettes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The hangings for the one side [of the gate] were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
King James Version (1611)
The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteene cubites, their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the stem solid, and the branches from both its sides;
English Revised Version
The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
Berean Standard Bible
The curtains of the one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of whiche tentis o side helde fiftene cubitis of thre pilers with her foundementis; and in the tother side,
Young's Literal Translation
The hangings on the side [are] fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three,
Update Bible Version
The hangings for the one side [of the gate] were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
Webster's Bible Translation
The hangings of the one side [of the gate were] fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
World English Bible
The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
New King James Version
The hangings of one side of the gate were fifteen cubits long, with their three pillars and their three sockets,
New Living Translation
The courtyard entrance was on the east end, flanked by two curtains. The curtain on the right side was 22 1⁄2 feet long and was supported by three posts set into three bases.
New Life Bible
The curtains for one side of the gate were as long as seven steps. They had three pillars with three bases.
New Revised Standard
The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
hangings, fifteen cubits, for the side-piece, - their pillars, three, and, their sockets three;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Fifteen cubits of which, were on one side with three pillars, and their sockets:
Revised Standard Version
The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets,

Contextual Overview

9 For the Tent of the Lord 's presence he made the enclosure out of fine linen curtains. On the south side the curtains were 50 yards long, 10 supported by twenty bronze posts in twenty bronze bases, with hooks and rods made of silver. 11 The enclosure was the same on the north side. 12 On the west side there were curtains 25 yards long, with ten posts and ten bases and with hooks and rods made of silver. 13 On the east side, where the entrance was, the enclosure was also 25 yards wide. 14On each side of the entrance there were 7½ yards of curtains, with three posts and three bases. 16 All the curtains around the enclosure were made of fine linen. 17 The bases for the posts were made of bronze, and the hooks, the rods, and the covering of the tops of the posts were made of silver. All the posts around the enclosure were connected with silver rods. 18 The curtain for the entrance of the enclosure was made of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and decorated with embroidery. It was 10 yards long and 2½ yards high, like the curtains of the enclosure. 19 It was supported by four posts in four bronze bases. Their hooks, the covering of their tops, and their rods were made of silver.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hangings: Exodus 27:14

Cross-References

Genesis 24:65
and asked Abraham's servant, "Who is that man walking toward us in the field?" "He is my master," the servant answered. So she took her scarf and covered her face.
Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Return to your father's house and remain a widow until my son Shelah grows up." He said this because he was afraid that Shelah would be killed, as his brothers had been. So Tamar went back home.
Genesis 38:13
Someone told Tamar that her father-in-law was going to Timnah to shear his sheep.
Genesis 38:26
Judah recognized them and said, "She is in the right. I have failed in my obligation to her—I should have given her to my son Shelah in marriage." And Judah never had intercourse with her again.
Proverbs 7:12
or stood waiting at a corner, sometimes in the streets, sometimes in the marketplace.
Jeremiah 3:2
Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution.
Ezekiel 16:25
You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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