Exodus 27 · Verse 9

Exodus 27:9

And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
Exodus 27:9, King James Version

Exodus 27:9 in other translations

BSBYou are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
WEB“You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.
ASVAnd thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side:
YLT‘And thou hast made the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward, hangings for the court of twined linen, a hundred by the cubit is the length for the one side,
DARBYAnd thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side, southward, hangings for the court of twined byssus; a hundred cubits the length for the one side,
BBEAnd let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.
WebsterAnd thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of a hundred cubits long for one side:

What does Exodus 27:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 27:9-19
9-19. the court of the tabernacle--The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that the people could see through; but that large curtain which overhung the entrance was of a different texture, being embroidered and dyed with variegated colors, and it was furnished with cords for pulling it up or drawing it aside when the priests had occasion to enter. The curtains of this enclosure were supported on sixty brazen pillars which stood on pedestals of the same metal, but their capitals and fillets were of silver, and the hooks on which they were suspended were of silver also.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 The court of the tabernacle - The tabernacle stood in an enclosure or court, open at the top. This court was made with pillars or posts, and hangings. It was one hundred cubits, or about fifty-eight yards and a half, in length; the breadth we learn from Exo 27:12, Exo 27:18; and five cubits, or nearly three yards, high, Exo 27:18. And as this was but half the height of the tabernacle, Exo 26:16, that sacred building might easily be seen by the people from without.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 27:9-19
The tabernacle was enclosed in a court, about sixty yards long and thirty broad, formed by curtains hung upon brazen pillars, fixed in brazen sockets. Within this enclosure the priests and Levites offered the sacrifices, and thither the Jewish people were admitted. These distinctions represented the difference between the visible nominal church, and the true spiritual church, which alone has access to God, and communion with him.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Exodus 27:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְעָשִׂ֕יתָve.'a.Si.taand you will makeH6213
אֵ֖ת'et<obj.>H853
חֲצַ֣רcha.Tzar[the] courtyard ofH2691
הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ןha.mish.Kanthe tabernacleH4908
לִפְאַ֣תlif.'Atfor [the] side ofH6285
נֶֽגֶב\־ne.gev-[the] southH5045
תֵּ֠ימָנָהTei.ma.nahsouth -wardH8486
קְלָעִ֨יםke.la.'ImcurtainsH7050
לֶחָצֵ֜רle.cha.Tzerfor the courtyardH2691
שֵׁ֣שׁsheshfine linenH8336
מָשְׁזָ֗רma.she.ZartwistedH7806
מֵאָ֤הme.'Ah[will be] one hundredH3967
בָֽאַמָּה֙va.'a.Mahby the cubitH520
אֹ֔רֶךְ'O.rekh[the] lengthH753
לַפֵּאָ֖הla.pe.'Ahof the sideH6285
הָאֶחָֽת\׃ha.'e.Chat<the> oneH259

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 27:9

  • Exodus 38:9-20

    And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits: Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. …

  • Ezekiel 40:28

    And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

  • Ezekiel 42:3

    Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

  • Exodus 39:40

    The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

  • Ezekiel 42:19-20

    He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

  • Ezekiel 46:20-24

    Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people. Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about. …

  • Exodus 40:8

    And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.

  • Ezekiel 40:20

    And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.

  • Ezekiel 40:44

    And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.

  • Ezekiel 40:32

    And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.

  • Psalms 92:13

    Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

  • Exodus 36:17

    And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the court.
38:9-20; 40:8; 1Ki 6:36; 8:64; 2Ch 33:5; Ps 84:10; 92:13; 100:4
Ps 116:19; Eze 40:14,20,23,28,32,44; 42:3,19,20; 46:20-24
hangings for.
26:31-37; 36:17; 39:40

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Context

  • Exodus 27:8

    Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

  • Exodus 27:9

    And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:

  • Exodus 27:10

    And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

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Exodus 27:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Asimismo harás el atrio del tabernáculo: al lado del mediodía, al austro, tendrá el atrio cortinas de lino torcido, de cien codos de longitud cada un lado;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et tu feras le parvis du tabernacle: pour le côté du midi vers le sud, des tentures de fin coton retors pour le parvis, de 100 coudées en longueur pour un côté,
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und du sollst den Vorhof der Wohnung machen: an der Mittagseite, südwärts, Umhänge für den Vorhof von gezwirntem Byssus, hundert Ellen die Länge auf der einen Seite;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Facies et atrium tabernaculi, in cujus australi plaga contra meridiem erunt tentoria de bysso retorta: centum cubitos unum latus tenebit in longitudine.