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Coverings of the Tabernacle

Four layers covered the tent: fine linen with cherubim, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins.

Location

Over the tent

Layers

Four

Goats' hair

11 curtains, 30 × 4 cubits

Outer

Badgers' skins

3D model of the Tabernacle with its outer covering of badgers' skins

Video lesson

Coverings in 3D

What the Bible says

The pattern given to Moses

King James Version

And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.

Exodus 26:7–12; cf. Exodus 36:14–18

Pointing to Christ

What it teaches us

From outside, the Tabernacle looked plain. Its beauty could only be seen from within.

“He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.” Isaiah 53:2