Objects
curtain
A curtain of finely woven linen, dyed and embroidered with winged creatures, hung on four gold-overlaid acacia poles in silver sockets. It divides the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. Aaron tends the lamp outside this curtain, in front of the Testimony.
Category
Objects
First mention
Exodus 26:31
Tags
2
Scripture references
- Exodus 26:31
'You will make a curtain of finely woven linen, dyed violet-purple, red-purple and crimson, and embroidered with great winged creatures,
- Exodus 26:33
You will put the curtain below the clasps, so that inside behind the curtain, you can place the ark of the Testimony, and the curtain will mark the division for you between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies.
- Exodus 27:21
Aaron and his sons will tend it in the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain hanging in front of the Testimony, from dusk to dawn, before Yahweh. This is a perpetual decree for all generations of Israelites.'
- Exodus 30:6
You will put it in front of the curtain by the ark of Testimony, in front of the mercy-seat which is on the Testimony, where I shall meet you.
- Exodus 35:12
the ark, its shafts and all its accessories, the mercy-seat and the screening curtain;