8 Bible Verses about Tapestries
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She makes herself coverings of tapestry. Her clothing is silk and purple.
Construct the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material. Make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman. Each curtain will be forty-two feet long and six feet wide. All will be the same size. Five of the curtains must be sewn together. The other five must also be sewn together.read more.
Make fifty violet loops along the edge of the end curtain in each set, Place the loops opposite each other. Make fifty gold fasteners. Use them to link the two sets of curtains together so that the tent is a single unit. Make eleven curtains of goats' hair to form an outer tent over the inner tent. Each of the eleven curtains will be forty-five feet long and six feet wide. Sew five of the curtains together into one set. Sew the remaining six into another set. Fold the sixth curtains in half to hang in front of the tent. Fasten fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in each set. Make fifty bronze fasteners. Put the fasteners through the loops to link the inner tent together as a single unit. Hang the remaining curtain over the back of the inner tent. Eighteen inches will be left over on each side because of the length of the outer tent's curtains. That should hang over each side in order to cover the inner tent. Make a cover of rams' skins that have been dyed red for the outer tent. Place a cover made of fine leather over that.
Make a courtyard for the tent (tabernacle). The south side of the courtyard (toward the Negeb) should be one hundred and fifty feet long and have curtains made out of fine linen yarn. Hang on them twenty posts set in twenty copper bases. The hooks and bands on the posts should be made of silver. The north side should be the same one hundred fifty feet long, with curtains on twenty posts set in twenty copper bases. The hooks and bands on the posts should be made of silver.read more.
The courtyard on the west side should be seventy-five wide and have curtains hung on ten posts set in ten bases. On the east end, facing the rising sun, the courtyard should also be seventy-five feet wide. One side of the entrance will be twenty-two and one half feet wide with curtains hung on three posts set in three bases. The other side will be the same. Use four more of these posts for the entrance. Hang on them an embroidered curtain of fine linen ten yards long and woven with blue, purple, and red wool. The curtains that surround the courtyard must be two and a half yards high and should be hung from the bronze posts with silver hooks and rods.
The most skilled men among those doing the work made the Tent of Jehovah's presence. They made it out of ten pieces of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures. Each curtain was forty-two feet long and six feet wide. They were all the same size. Five of the curtains were sewn together. The other five were also sewn together.read more.
They made fifty violet loops along the edge of the end curtain in each set. They placed the loops opposite sides of each other. They also made fifty gold fasteners. They used them to link the two sets of curtains together so that the inner tent was a single unit. Eleven curtains were made of goats' hair to form an outer tent over the inner tent. Each of the eleven curtains was forty-five feet long and six feet wide. Five of the curtains were sewn together into one set, and the remaining six into another set. They made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in each set. Fifty bronze fasteners were also made to link the inner tent together as a single unit.
The gold was hammered into thin sheets and cut up. They twisted the gold into threads, which they creatively worked into each strand of the violet, purple, and bright red yarn, and throughout the fine linen.
There were hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best (cotton) linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone. The seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.
I am lovely and black, O you daughters of Jerusalem. I am like the tents of Kedar and the curtains of Solomon.
