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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Exodus 36:37

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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an hanging: This vail was a fine embroidered curtain, of the same materials and of the same workmanship as the inner vail and inner covering of the tabernacle. The text does not say how low it hung. Philo makes it touch the ground; but Josephus will have it to come down but half way, so that the people might have a view of the inside of the tabernacle; but then he says there was another curtain over that, which came to the ground, to keep it from the weather, and was drawn aside on the sabbath and other festivals. Exo 26:36, Exo 26:37, Exo 40:28 of needlework: Heb. the work of a needle worker, or embroider, Exo 26:36 Exodus 36:38
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