Exodus 40

Exodus 40:1-33

The form of the tabernacle when erected was as follows: The court was sixty-one yards long, and half as much in breadth. It was inclosed by a liver hanging of about nine feet in height, suspended by silver books, on fifty-six brazen pillars, filletted with silver, and fixed in large sockets of brass. The only entrance, from the east, was twelve yards wide, and hung over with a fine vail of embroidered linen, suspended on four pillars. Here, under the open sky, stood the brazen altar and laver; and hither every clean Hebrew or proselyte might come with his oblations. At the west end of this court stood the tabernacle itself; a close tent, in the form of a house, standing with its end towards the east. It was about eighteen and one-fourth yards long, six and one-twelfth broad, and as much in height. It was reared with forty-eight boards of shittim-wood, overlaid with gold, and fixed at bottom in ninety-six large sockets of silver, and bound together with five cross bars of the same materials. On this frame was suspended a fourfold covering.—The innermost consisted of ten embroidered linen curtains, each about seventeen yards in length, and about two and one half yards in breadth, coupled with taches, or buttons of gold. Over this was a covering of eleven curtains of goats’ hair, coupled with taches of brass; the next was of rams’ skins dyed red; the upper-