Exodus 26:2

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 26:2 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    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.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The length of each curtain shall be 28 cubits and the width of each curtain shall be 4 cubits. All of the curtains shall be one size.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    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.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    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.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    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.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    The length of one curtaine shalbe eight and twentie cubites, and the bredth of one curtaine, foure cubites: euery one of the curtaines shall haue one measure.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, the breadth shall be four cubits. All the curtains shall be of one measure.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    the length of the one curtain `is' eight and twenty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit, one measure `is' to all the curtains;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    the length of the one curtain [is] twenty-eight by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain [is] four by the cubit, one measure [is] for all the curtains;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The length of each curtain must be twenty-eight cubits, the width four cubits. All the curtains must be of the same size.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The length of each curtain shall be 28 cubits and the width of each curtain shall be 4 cubits. All of the curtains shall be one size.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits -- one measure for all the curtains.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    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.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Each curtain is to measure twenty-eight cubits long by four cubits wide, and all the curtains are to be the same size.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    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.

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הַיְרִיעָ֣ה
yᵉrîyʻâh
H3407
“the · curtain”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Feminine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3415

TWOT: 917a

curtain, drape
  1. אֹ֣רֶךְ ʼôrek H753 “length of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. הָֽאַחַ֗ת ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  3. שְׁמֹנֶ֤ה shᵉmôneh H8083 “eight” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  4. וְעֶשְׂרִים֙ ʻesrîym H6242 “and · twenty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  5. בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה ʼammâh H520 “in/at the · cubit” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  6. וְרֹ֨חַב֙ rôchab H7341 “and · breadth” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. אַרְבַּ֣ע ʼarbaʻ H702 “four” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  8. בָּאַמָּ֔ה ʼammâh H520 “in/at the · cubit” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  9. הַיְרִיעָ֖ה yᵉrîyʻâh H3407 “the · curtain” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  10. הָאֶחָ֑ת ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  11. מִדָּ֥ה middâh H4060 “measure” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  12. אַחַ֖ת ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  13. לְכָל kôl H3605 “to/for · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  14. הַיְרִיעֹֽת yᵉrîyʻâh H3407 “the · curtains” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

15
words
10
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • מִדָּ֥ה measure H4060

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַיְרִיעָ֣ה curtain H3407 occurs in 32 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 9 nouns
  • 6 adjectives

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • הַיְרִיעָ֣ה curtain H3407 ×3
  • הָֽאַחַ֗ת one H259 ×3
  • בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה cubit H520 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 31 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 15 Hebrew tokens and 25 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 26:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 4:25 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,
  • 2 Samuel 7:2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.
  • 1 Chronicles 17:1 It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [dwells] under curtains.
  • Exodus 26:7–8 "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent: eleven curtains shall you make them.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 26:2 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֹ֣רֶךְ הַיְרִיעָ֣ה הָֽאַחַ֗ת שְׁמֹנֶ֤ה וְעֶשְׂרִים֙ בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה וְרֹ֨חַב֙ אַרְבַּ֣ע בָּאַמָּ֔ה הַיְרִיעָ֖ה הָאֶחָ֑ת מִדָּ֥ה אַחַ֖ת לְכָל הַיְרִיעֹֽת

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

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 26:2 Septuagint · lemma form

μῆκος ὁ αὐλαία ὁ εἷς ὀκτώ καί εἴκοσι πῆχυς καί εὖρος τέσσαρες πῆχυς ὁ αὐλαία ὁ εἷς εἰμί μέτρον ὁ αὐτός εἰμί πᾶς ὁ αὐλαία

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

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    אֻרְכָּא דִירִיעֲתָא חֲדָא עַשְׂרִין וְתַמְנֵי אַמִין וּפוּתְיָא אַרְבַּע אַמִין דִירִיעֲתָא חֲדָא מְשַׁחְתָּא חֲדָא לְכָל יְרִיעֲתָא:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    אוּרְכָּא דִירִיעֲתָא חֲדָא עַשְרִין וְתַמְנֵי אַמִּין וּפוּתְיָה אַרְבַּע אַמִּין דִּירִיעֲתָא חֲדָא מִשְׁחֲתָא חֲדָא לְכָל יְרִיעֲתָא

    The length of one curtain twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; the measure of one shall be that of all the curtains.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 26:2 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 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.

Ver. 2. Of the curtains.] Not, Of the tabernacles, as the vulgar interpreter hath it.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

26:2-6 42 feet long and 6 feet wide: A width of 6 feet may have been dictated by the size of the largest loom available. Five of the six-foot strips were joined, probably by being sewn together, making one continuous piece of cloth 42 feet long and 30 feet wide. When joined to each other with the loops and clasps (26:5-6), the two cloths formed a single unit 42 feet by 60 feet.

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

length--Each curtain was to be fifteen yards in length and a little exceeding two in breadth.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(2) The length . . . eight and twenty cubits.—Mr. Fergusson has shown that to cover over a space twenty cubits wide with a roof, the two sides of which should meet at a right angle, a tent-cloth almost exactly twenty-eight cubits long would be required.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

The length of one curtain shall be twenty eight cubits,.... Or fourteen yards:

and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; or two yards; according to the common notion of a cubit being half a yard; but if, as Dr. Cumberland says, the Jewish and Egyptian cubit was three inches longer, this will make a considerable difference in the length and breadth of those curtains, especially in the former:

and everyone of the curtains shall have one measure; be of equal length and breadth.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

2, 3. Length… eight and twenty cubits… breadth… four cubits — Hence, when coupled together in two great pieces of five curtains each, they would form a great tent cloth twenty-eight by forty cubits (about 42 x 60 feet) in dimensions. This would be ample for covering the mishcan of boards, described below. Exo_26:15-30.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Eight and twenty cubits. This is the exact length required for a rectangular tented roof over such a space, which should descend (as tent roofs usually do) within about seven feet of the ground. The comparison made in vers. 12, 13, between the fine linen covering of the mishkan and the goats" hair covering of the "tent," implies that the one was directly under the other, and that both were arranged in the same way. The breadth of four cubits. This gives for the entire length of the curtain (4 by 10), 40 cubits, or ten cubits more than the length of the boarded space. The roof must thus have been advanced some distance in front of the tabernacle proper, or rectangular boarded space. Every one of the curtains shall have one measure. They shall all, i.e. , have the same measure.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

The length of each piece was to be 28 cubits, and the breadth 4 cubits, one measure for all; and five of these pieces were to be "joined together one to another," i.e., joined or sewed together into a piece of 28 cubits in length and 20 in breadth, and the same with the other five.

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 15 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yᵉrîyʻâh (“curtain”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word yᵉrîyʻâh carries the sense “curtain.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. The word “measure” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. Exodus 26:1 shares the word «curtain» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  4. “curtain” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  5. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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