- 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. "And thou shalt makeª° an hangingª for the doorª of the tent,ª [of] blue,ª and purple,ª and scarlet,ªª and fine twined²° linen,ª¹ wrought² with needlework.ª°¹ ... And thou shalt makeª° for the hangingª fiveª pillarsª [of] shittimª [wood], and overlayª° them with gold,ª [and] their hooksª [shall be of] gold:ª and thou shalt castª° fiveª socketsª of brassª for them." {Exd 26:36-37} + "And he set upª°¹ the hangingª [at] the doorª of the tabernacle.ª" {Exd 40:28}
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