Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 26:3
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled one to another.
3. The curtains were to be joined together, so as to form two sets of five, each 28 cubits (42 ft.) long, and 20 cubits (30 ft.) broad. The Dwelling was 30 cubits long, and 10 cubits high and broad: and the curtain was spread over it in such a way that it hung down for the entire height of 10 cubits behind (the front, having a ‘screen’ of its own ( v. 36), not needing any curtain), and for 9 cubits on each of the two sides.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
3. The five curtains shall becoupled together one to another, &c.so as to form twogrand divisions, each eleven yards wide.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another,…. Five of the ten curtains were to be sewed together, and make as it were one curtain:
and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another: the other five were to be joined together in like manner, and so made two large pieces of tapestry of fourteen yards long and ten broad, according to the common account of a cubit, but were much longer and broader.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(3) The five curtains.It is anomalous that the article should be used here. Probably it has crept in from the curtains of the preceding verse. The meaning is that five breadths should be sewn together to form one curtain, and five other breadths to form another, and then that the two curtains so formed should be joined into one by means of loops and taches. The object of making two curtains instead of one was clearly portability. The entire covering would have been too heavy and too bulky to be conveniently carried in one piece.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Son 1:5 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 26:3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled one to another.
Ver. 3. Shall be coupled together. ] These curtains were coupled with loops; so should Christians by love. “My dove is but one: the daughters saw her and blessed her.” Son 6:9 See Eph 2:21-22 ; Eph 4:16 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
coupled together. Like the five commandments on the two tables. See on Ex. 20.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
coupled together: Exo 26:9, Exo 36:10, Joh 17:21, 1Co 12:4, 1Co 12:12-27, Eph 2:21, Eph 2:22, Eph 4:3-6, Eph 4:16, Col 2:2, Col 2:19
Reciprocal: Exo 26:11 – tent Exo 39:20 – coupling Lev 18:18 – wife