Exodus 35:11

“The tabernacle, etc.] Which is not a general name for the whole, the court, the holy place, and the holy of holies; but designs the ten fine linen curtains curiously wrought; or the under curtains, as Jarchi expresses it, which were within: his tent; the curtains of goats’ hair, which were a covering over the others, and were made for a roof of the tabernacle, as the same writer observes: and his covering; the covering for the tent, which was made of rams’ skins, and badgers’ skins: his taches; which clasped, coupled the curtains together, both the one and the other; the one sort were of silver, and the other of brass: and his boards, his bars, his pillars; which were all of shittim wood;…”

“See Exodus 26:1-37. It has been already observed Exodus 25:10 that in the instructions for making the sanctuary, the ark of the covenant, as the principal thing belonging to it, is mentioned first; but in the practical order of the work, as it is here arranged, the tabernacle with its tent and covering come first. return to 'Top of Page'”

“tabernacle: Exo 26:1, 2-37, Exo 31:7-9, 36:8-34 taches: Keraism, from karas, to bend, so called from their curved form; hooks, clasps, or anything used for the purpose of fastening. The word taches is formed by apheresis from the French attacher, to fasten. They were equivalent, perhaps, to our hooks-and-eyes. Exodus 35:12”