Exodus 26:36

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“For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.”

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BSBPD

“For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And thou hast made a covering for the opening of the tent, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, work of an embroiderer;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 26:36 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 26:31Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
  2. Exodus 27:16The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.
  3. Exodus 28:15You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
  4. Exodus 35:11the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;
  5. Exodus 35:15the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
  6. Exodus 36:37For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen,
  7. Exodus 39:33Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and bases;
  8. Exodus 40:5Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
  9. Exodus 40:28Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
  10. Numbers 3:25The duties of the Gershonites at the Tent of Meeting were the tabernacle and tent, its covering, the curtain for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
  11. Numbers 9:15On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
  12. 2 Samuel 7:6For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved about with a tent as My dwelling.
  13. Psalms 78:60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
  14. John 10:9I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
  15. John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

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