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Exodus 26:2

The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

KJV

Longitudo cortinæ unius habebit viginti octo cubitos : latitudo, quatuor cubitorum erit. Unius mensuræ fient universa tentoria.

Vulgate

μῆκος τῆς αὐλαίας τῆς μιᾶς ὀκτὼ καὶ εἴκοσι πήχεων, καὶ εὖρος τεσσάρων πήχεων ἡ αὐλαία ἡ μία ἔσται· μέτρον τὸ αὐτὸ ἔσται πάσαις ταῖς αὐλαίαις.

LXX

The length of each curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.

ASV

אֹ֣רֶךְ הַ/יְרִיעָ֣ה הָֽ/אַחַ֗ת שְׁמֹנֶ֤ה וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ בָּֽ/אַמָּ֔ה וְ/רֹ֨חַב֙ אַרְבַּ֣ע בָּ/אַמָּ֔ה הַ/יְרִיעָ֖ה הָ/אֶחָ֑ת מִדָּ֥ה אַחַ֖ת לְ/כָל הַ/יְרִיעֹֽת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶחָ֖ד
'chd
adjective · 970×
אַמָּ֔ה
'mh
noun · 249×
אַרְבַּ֥ע
'rb'
adjective · 318×
וֹ
v
noun · 95×
יְרִיעָ֣ה
yry'h
noun · 54×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מִדָּ֣ה
mdh
noun · 55×
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים
'shrym
adjective · 313×
רֹ֖חַב
rchb
noun · 101×
שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה
shmnh
adjective · 109×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Folly of the arguments derived by the heretics from numbers, letters, and syllables. 1. This very thing, too, still further demonstrates their opinion false, and their fictitious system untenable, that they endeavour to bring forward proofs of it, sometimes through means of numbers and the syllables of names, sometimes also through the letter of syllables, and yet again through…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 17:1 — Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
  • 2Sam 7:2 — That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
  • Num 4:25 — And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers’ skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of