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New King James Version

Exodus 36:9

The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the curtains were all the same size.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Curtains;   Israel;   Tabernacle;   Tapestry;   Thompson Chain Reference - Curtains;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Tabernacle;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Curtain;   Tabernacle;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Curtains;   Tabernacle;   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 - Tabernacle;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.
King James Version
The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
Lexham English Bible
The length of the one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width was four cubits for the one curtain; one measurement was for all the curtains.
New Century Version
Each curtain was the same size—forty-two feet long and six feet wide.
New English Translation
The length of one curtain was forty-two feet, and the width of one curtain was six feet—the same size for each of the curtains.
Amplified Bible
Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were one size.
New American Standard Bible
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had the same measurements.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The length of one curtaine was twentie & eight cubits, & the breadth of one curtaine foure cubites: and the curtaines were all of one cise.
Legacy Standard Bible
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had the same measurements.
Complete Jewish Bible
Each sheet was forty-two feet long and six feet wide; all the sheets were the same size.
Darby Translation
The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits—one measure for all the curtains.
Easy-to-Read Version
Each curtain was the same size—28 cubits long and 4 cubits wide.
English Standard Version
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size.
George Lamsa Translation
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the curtains were all of one size.
Good News Translation
Each piece was the same size, 14 yards long and 2 yards wide.
Christian Standard Bible®
Each curtain was forty-two feet long and six feet wide; all the curtains had the same measurements.
Literal Translation
The length of one curtain was twenty eight by the cubit; and the width was four by the cubit; the one curtain was the same measure for all the curtains.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The legth of one curtayne was eight and twentye cubites, and the bredth foure cubites, & were all of one measure:
American Standard Version
The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one measure.
Bible in Basic English
Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The length of one curtaine was twentie & eyght cubites, & the breadth foure: and the curtaynes were all of one sise.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had one measure.
King James Version (1611)
The length of one curtaine was twentie & eight cubites, and the breadth of one curtaine foure cubites: the curtaines were all of one cise.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he made the ephod of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.
English Revised Version
The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one measure.
Berean Standard Bible
Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Of whiche curteyns oon hadde in lengthe eiyte and twenti cubitis, and foure cubitis in breede; o mesure was of alle curteyns.
Young's Literal Translation
The length of the one curtain [is] eight and twenty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit; one measure [is] to all the curtains.
Update Bible Version
The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one measure.
Webster's Bible Translation
The length of one curtain [was] twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains [were] all of one size.
World English Bible
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.
New Living Translation
All ten curtains were exactly the same size—42 feet long and 6 feet wide.
New Life Bible
Each curtain was as long as fourteen long steps and as wide as two long steps, all of them the same.
New Revised Standard
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains were of the same size.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The length of each curtain, was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth four cubits, for each curtain, - one measure, had all the curtains.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth four: all the curtains were of the same size.
Revised Standard Version
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had the same measure.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had the same measurements.

Contextual Overview

8 Exodus 26:1-37">[xr] Then all the gifted artisans among them who worked on the tabernacle made ten curtains woven of fine linen, and of blue, purple, and scarlet thread; with artistic designs of cherubim they made them. 9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the curtains were all the same size. 10 And he coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another. 11 He made loops of blue yarn on the edge of the curtain on the selvedge of one set; likewise he did on the outer edge of the other curtain of the second set. 12 Fifty loops he made on one curtain, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain on the end of the second set; the loops held one curtain to another. 13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps, that it might be one tabernacle.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 19:37
The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 36:9. The length of one curtain — Concerning these curtains, Exodus 26:1; Exodus 26:1, &c.


 
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