Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 26:31

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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To divide the dwelling into two rooms, a curtain was to be made, of the same material, and woven in the same artistic manner as the inner covering of the walls ( Exo 26:1). This was called פּרכת, lit., division, separation, from פּרך to divide, or מסך פּרכת ( Exo 35:12; Exo 39:34; Exo 40:21) division of the covering, i.e., to hang this "upon four pillars of gilded acacia-wood and their golden hooks, (standing) upon four silver sockets," under the loops (קרסים) which held the two halves of the inner covering together ( Exo 26:6). Thus the curtain divided the dwelling into two compartments, the one occupying ten cubits and the other twenty of its entire length. Exodus 26:33

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