3 Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
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Each curtain formed of five breadths (see Exodus 26:1), was 42 feet in length and 30 feet in breadth, taking the cubit at 18 inches.
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another,.... Five of the ten curtains were to be sewed together, and make as it were one curtain:
and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another: the other five were to be joined together in like manner, and so made two large pieces of tapestry of fourteen yards long and ten broad, according to the common account of a cubit, but were much longer and broader.
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another, &c.--so as to form two grand divisions, each eleven yards wide.
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