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Éxodo 26

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1Harás diez cortinas para el Tabernáculo de lino finamente hilado, usando hilos azules, púrpura y carmesí. Háganlas bordar con querubines por alguien que sea hábil en el bordado.

2Cada cortina debe medir 28 codos de largo por 4 codos de ancho, y todas las cortinas deben ser del mismo tamaño.

3Junta cinco de las cortinas y haz lo mismo con las otras cinco.

4Usa material azul para hacer lazos en el borde de la última cortina de ambos juegos.

5Haz cincuenta lazos en una cortina y cincuenta lazos en la última cortina del segundo juego, alineando los lazos entre sí.

6Luego haz cincuenta ganchos de oro y une las cortinas con los ganchos, para que el Tabernáculo sea una sola estructura.

7Haz once cortinas de pelo de cabra como una tienda de campaña para cubrir el Tabernáculo.

8Cada una de las once cortinas debe ser del mismo tamaño: 30 codos de largo por 4 codos de ancho.

9Unirás cinco de las cortinas como un conjunto y las otras seis como otro conjunto. Luego dobla la sexta cortina en dos en la parte delantera de la tienda.

10Haz cincuenta lazos en el borde de la última cortina del primer juego, y cincuenta lazos a lo largo del borde de la última cortina del segundo juego.

11Harás cincuenta ganchos de bronce y póngalos en los lazos para unir la tienda como una sola cubierta.

12La media cortina extra de esta cubierta de la tienda se dejará colgada en la parte trasera del Tabernáculo.

13Las cortinas de la tienda serán un codo más largas en cada lado, y la longitud extra colgará sobre los lados del Tabernáculo para que quede todo cubierto.

14Harás una cubierta para la tienda con pelo de cabra y pieles de carnero curtidas, y colocarás una cubierta extra de cuero fino sobre ella.

15Hagan un marco vertical de madera de acacia para el Tabernáculo.

16Cada estructura debe tener diez codos de largo por uno y medio de ancho.

17Cada marco tendrá dos clavijas para que los marcos puedan ser conectados entre sí. Hagan todos los marcos del Tabernáculo así.

18Haz veinte marcos para el lado sur del Tabernáculo.

19Haz cuarenta soportes de plata como apoyo para los veinte marcos usando dos soportes por marco, uno debajo de cada clavija del marco.

20De manera similar para el lado norte del Tabernáculo, harás veinte marcos

21y cuarenta soportes de plata, dos soportes por marco.

22Harás seis marcos para la parte trasera (lado oeste) del Tabernáculo,

23junto con dos marcos para sus dos esquinas traseras.

24Unirás estos marcos de las esquinas en la parte inferior y en la parte superior cerca del primer anillo. Así es como debes hacer los dos marcos de las esquinas.

25En total habrá ocho marcos y dieciséis soportes de plata, dos debajo de cada marco.

26Haz cinco barras transversales de madera de acacia para unir los marcos del lado sur del Tabernáculo,

27cinco para los del norte y cinco para los de la parte trasera del Tabernáculo, al oeste.

28El travesaño central que se coloca a mitad de camino de los marcos irá de un extremo al otro.

29Cubrid los marcos con oro, y haced anillos de oro para sujetar los travesaños en su sitio. Cubrir los travesaños con oro también.

30Ensambla el Tabernáculo siguiendo el diseño que te mostré en la montaña.

31Haz un velo de hilo azul, púrpura y carmesí, y de lino finamente hilado, bordado con querubines por alguien que sea hábil en el bordado.

32Con ganchos de oro, cuélgalo de cuatro postes de madera de acacia cubiertos de oro, sostenidos por cuatro soportes de plata.

33Coloca el velo bajo el gancho y pon el Arca del Testimonio dentro, detrás del velo. El velo separará el Lugar Santo del Lugar Santísimo.

34Pon la cubierta de expiación en el Arca del Testimonio en el Lugar Santísimo.

35Pon la mesa fuera del velo en el lado norte del Tabernáculo y pon el candelabro enfrente en el lado sur.

36Haz una pantalla para la entrada de la tienda usando hilos azules, púrpura y carmesí, y lino finamente hilado y hazlo bordado.

37Haz cinco postes de madera de acacia con ganchos de oro para colgar el biombo, y funde cinco soportes de bronce para sujetarlos.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Instructions are given in detail for building the curtains, boards, and veils that would form the physical structure of the tabernacle, including the separation between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.

Explanation

This chapter continues the technical instructions for building the tabernacle, now focusing on the physical structure that would house the sacred objects described in the previous chapter. The careful layering of curtains (fine embroidered linen, goats' hair, dyed rams' skins, badgers' skins) created a sanctuary that was portable yet dignified and protected against the elements of the desert. The veil separating the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place, embroidered with cherubim, physically established the distinction between God's closest presence (where the ark stood) and the rest of the sacred space, reflecting the idea that access to God's utmost holiness required careful, reverent separation. This structure, though temporary and mobile, would later be replaced by a permanent, monumental version in Solomon's temple, but the spiritual principles of separation and holiness established here would remain constant.

Fun facts

  • The veil separating the Most Holy Place, mentioned in this chapter, is the same kind of structure (though in a later, larger version in the Jerusalem temple) that, according to the Gospels, tore 'from the top to the bottom' at the moment of Jesus' death (Matthew 27:51), symbolizing for Christians a renewed and direct access to God's presence.
  • The detailed dimensions and proportions of the tabernacle, when compared by archaeologists and historians to other portable sanctuaries from ancient Egypt and the Near East, show technical construction similarities to royal ceremonial tents of the period, suggesting that the technology described was plausible and contemporary to the time of the Exodus.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Éxodo 26:1The tabernacle’s inner walls were, in practice, large fabric curtains embroidered with cherub figures, not rigid walls. They were hung over a wooden frame covered in gold, forming an enclosed space inside the large tent.
  2. Éxodo 26:2Each of the tabernacle’s ten inner curtains measured about 42 feet long by 6 feet wide, standardized measurements so they would fit together perfectly.
  3. Éxodo 26:3The ten curtains were sewn into two large panels of five, forming two bigger pieces before being joined to each other.
  4. Éxodo 26:4Loops of blue fabric along the edges of each panel served as attachment points for the gold clasps described in the next verse.
  5. Éxodo 26:5Fifty loops on each side ensured that the two panels lined up perfectly when they were joined.
  6. Éxodo 26:6Gold clasps fastened the loops of the two panels, turning the ten separate curtains into a single continuous covering for the tabernacle.
  7. Éxodo 26:7Over this embroidered inner covering, a second, sturdier layer made of goats’ hair served as the outer protective tent.
  8. Éxodo 26:8The eleven goat-hair curtains were a little larger than the inner ones, giving enough slack to cover the whole structure from above.
  9. Éxodo 26:9These eleven curtains were divided into groups of five and six, with the sixth doubled over at the front of the tent, forming a kind of flap at the entrance.
  10. Éxodo 26:10The same system of loops used on the inner curtains was repeated here, allowing the two groups of goat-hair curtains to be joined.
  11. Éxodo 26:11Unlike the inner curtains, which used gold clasps, this outer layer was fastened with bronze clasps, a material more resistant to the weather.
  12. Éxodo 26:12The extra length of the goat-hair curtain, being a little longer than the inner ones, hung over and covered the back of the tabernacle.
  13. Éxodo 26:13Likewise, the side overhang of this outer curtain hung down along the sides of the structure, ensuring the inner curtains stayed protected.
  14. Éxodo 26:14Outside the embroidered curtains and the goat-hair canvas, the tabernacle also had two more layers of weather protection: ram skins dyed red and, over everything, a tougher layer (the “badgers’ skins,” probably the hide of a sea animal) to protect against the desert’s rain and sun.
  15. Éxodo 26:15Besides the curtains, the tabernacle had a rigid frame of acacia boards set upright, forming the tent’s inner walls.
  16. Éxodo 26:16Each board measured about 15 feet high by roughly 2 feet 3 inches wide, standardized dimensions for the whole structure.
  17. Éxodo 26:17Fittings at the base of each board, like tenons, allowed them to connect firmly to one another along the wall.
  18. Éxodo 26:18Twenty of these boards made up the south side of the tabernacle, one of the longer walls of the rectangular structure.
  19. Éxodo 26:19Each board rested on two silver sockets, fitted onto the tenons at its base, giving the whole wall stability and level footing.
  20. Éxodo 26:20The north side of the tabernacle was built identically to the south side, with another twenty boards in the same configuration.
  21. Éxodo 26:21The silver sockets on the north side followed exactly the same pattern as the south side, two for each board.
  22. Éxodo 26:22The back wall of the tabernacle, facing west, was narrower, made up of only six boards.
  23. Éxodo 26:23Two extra boards, placed specifically at the rear corners, gave structural reinforcement where the side and back walls met.
  24. Éxodo 26:24These corner boards were fitted together in a special way, joined at both the base and the top by a ring, reinforcing where the walls met.
  25. Éxodo 26:25In total, the west wall came to eight boards, each resting on two silver sockets, following the pattern of the other walls.
  26. Éxodo 26:26Horizontal bars of acacia wood ran across the boards on each side, binding the whole structure together and keeping it from coming apart.
  27. Éxodo 26:27The same system of bars was repeated on all three sides of the structure, south, north, and west, giving stability to the whole set of boards.
  28. Éxodo 26:28A longer central bar ran across the boards from end to end, further reinforcing the rigidity of each wall.
  29. Éxodo 26:29Like other pieces of the tabernacle, the boards and bars also received an overlay of gold, with gold rings to hold the bars in place.
  30. Éxodo 26:30Repeats the requirement to follow exactly the pattern shown to Moses on the mountain, this time applied to assembling the board structure.
  31. Éxodo 26:31A veil embroidered with cherubim, made of the same colored fabrics used in the inner curtains, marked the most important division inside the tabernacle.
  32. Éxodo 26:32The veil was hung on four acacia pillars overlaid with gold, resting on silver sockets, physically separating the two parts of the sanctuary.
  33. Éxodo 26:33The tabernacle had two rooms: a larger one, the “holy place,” where the priests entered for daily service, and a smaller one, the “most holy” place, where only the ark stood. This veil separated the two, and only the high priest could pass through it, and only once a year.
  34. Éxodo 26:34The ark’s golden lid, the mercy seat, was placed specifically inside the innermost, most sacred space, set apart by the veil.
  35. Éxodo 26:35The table of bread and the lampstand stood outside the veil, on opposite sides of the sanctuary’s main space, one to the north and the other to the south.
  36. Éxodo 26:36An embroidered curtain, similar to the inner veil but a separate piece, covered the entrance of the tent, marking the division between the sanctuary and the outer area.
  37. Éxodo 26:37This entrance curtain was held up by five acacia pillars overlaid with gold, resting on bronze sockets, unlike the silver sockets of the inner veil.

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