Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 26:9
And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
For the better security of the inward covering.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And thou shall couple five curtains by themselves,…. And make one large curtain of them, as was ordered with respect to the linen curtains:
and six curtains by themselves; as there were eleven of them, such a division was made of five into one large curtain, and six into another; and as that which had six in it would reach further than the other, provision is made for the disposal and use of that as follows:
and shall double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle; at the entrance of it, in the east end of it; the sixth curtain reaching to that, and hanging down, was turned up, and so doubled, opposite the door or entrance; and was, as Jarchi says, like a modest bride that covers her face with a vail, which before this had no covering; for thus it was, as Dr. Lightfoot m describes it, the holy place was ten yards long, and the five curtains sewed together were just so broad, and so they covered only the top and the sides, but hung not down at the end, which was eastward–but the six (goat hair curtains) that lay east reached to the end, covered the pillars whereon that vail hung, and they hung half a curtain’s breadth or a yard over the entrance.
m Works, vol. 1. p. 718.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Five of these were to be connected (sewed together) by themselves ( ), and the other six in the same manner; and the sixth piece was to be made double, i.e., folded together, towards the front of the tent, so as to form a kind of gable, as Josephus has also explained the passage (Ant. iii. 6, 4).
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(9) Thou . . . shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.The additional breadth was to be doubled back upon itself, so giving a sort of finish to the roof in the front of the structure.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
9. Five curtains by themselves The expression by themselves seems evidently to mean the same as “together one to another” in Exo 26:3. These eleven breadths were to be coupled together like those ten in two great pieces, and the putting five in one and six in the other would provide that their places of union by loops and taches (Exo 26:10-11) would not, when spread over the roof, coincide with those of the tabernacle cloth of ten curtains .
Double the sixth So that half of it would hang over in the forefront of the tent . Comp . on Exo 26:12.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Is not the wonderful exactness here shown to those minute circumstances, intended to manifest how, even to the smallest matters, the Lord regards his Church and people: Mat 6:25-30 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
five curtains by themselves: Exo 26:3
Reciprocal: Exo 26:7 – eleven Exo 26:12 – shall hang over
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
26:9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the {e} sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
(e) That is, five on the one side, and five on the other, and the sixth should hang over the door of the tabernacle.