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Exodus 36:9

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The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
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Exodus 36:9

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length

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1. The extent or measurement of something from end to end. 2. Duration or continuance in time. 3. In “at length,” at last or after a long time.

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twenty

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The number equal to two tens, following nineteen and preceding twenty-one.

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cubits

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Units of length used to state height, width, depth, or distance in biblical measurements.

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breadth

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Width or extent from side to side. In compounds such as “hand breadth,” “foot breadth,” and “hair breadth,” a width measured by the named object.

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size

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Sense 1: Bulk, magnitude, dimensions, or amount. Sense 2: Condition with respect to rank or character.

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36:8¶ And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.

36:9The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.

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36:10And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.

36:11And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

36:12Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.

36:13And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.

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