Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 26:5
Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that [is] in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain,…. In the first great curtain, or in the outermost of the five that were sewed together:
and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; as many also were to be made in the outermost of the second great curtain where it was to be coupled with the first:
that the loops may take hold one of another; or rather that they might answer to one another in both curtains; for the loops could not take hold of one another, only were made to meet together by the taches, hooks, or clasps put into them, next mentioned.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(5) That the loops may take hold one of another.Rather, correspond one to another. They were not to take hold, but to be attached by golden links.
Taches, or clasps. These might be split-rings, or links like modern sleeve-links.
And it shall be one tabernacle.Rather, and (so) the tabernacle shall be one. The division of the curtain which formed the roof into two portions tended to make a division in the tabernacle itself. To prevent this, the two curtains were to be so looped together as to be practically one. Thus the tabernacle itself became one.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Exo 26:4 – loops of blue Exo 36:12 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
26:5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that [is] in the coupling of the {c} second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
(c) In tying together both the sides.