Exodus 36 · Verse 37

Exodus 36:37

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

Exodus 36:37, King James Version

Exodus 36:37 in other translations

BSB	For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen,
WEB	He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
ASV	And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer;
YLT	And he maketh a covering for the opening of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, work of an embroiderer,
DARBY	And he made a curtain for the entrance of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, of embroidery;
BBE	And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red;
Webster	And he made a hanging for the tabernacle-door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needle-work;

What does Exodus 36:37 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

37. made an hanging for the ... door--Curtains of elaborately wrought needlework are often suspended over the entrance to tents of the great nomad sheiks, and throughout Persia, at the entrance of summer tents, mosques, and palaces. They are preferred as cooler and more elegant than wooden doors. This chapter contains an instructive narrative: it is the first instance of donations made for the worship of God, given from the wages of the people's sufferings and toils. They were acceptable to God (Php 4:18), and if the Israelites showed such liberality, how much more should those whose privilege it is to live under the Christian dispensation (1Co 6:20; 16:2).

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 37 Hanging for the - door - See Clarke on Exo 26:36 (note), etc.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Exodus 36:37 in the original Hebrew

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וַיַּ֤עַשׂvai.Ya.'asand he madeH6213

מָסָךְ֙ma.soKha screenH4539

לְפֶ֣תַחle.Fe.tachfor [the] entrance ofH6607

הָאֹ֔הֶלha.'O.helthe tentH168

תְּכֵ֧לֶתte.Khe.letviolet stuffH8504

וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ןve.'ar.ga.Manand purpleH713

וְתוֹלַ֥עַתve.to.La.'atand scarlet stuff ofH8438

שָׁנִ֖יsha.NiscarletH8144

וְשֵׁ֣שׁve.Sheshand fine linenH8336

מָשְׁזָ֑רma.she.ZartwistedH7806

מַעֲשֵׂ֖הma.'a.Seh[the] work ofH4639

רֹקֵֽם\׃ro.Kema worker in colorsH7551

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

Cross references for Exodus 36:37

Exodus 26:36-37
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework. And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Exodus 40:28
And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

an hanging.This vail was a fine embroidered curtain, of the same materials and of the same workmanship as the inner vail and inner covering of the tabernacle. The text does not say how low it hung. Philo makes it touch the ground; but Josephus will have it to come down but half way, so that the people might have a view of the inside of the tabernacle; but then he says there was another curtain over that, which came to the ground, to keep it from the weather, and was drawn aside on the sabbath and other festivals.
26:36,37; 40:28
of needlework. Heb. the work of a needle worker, orembroider.
26:36

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Context

Exodus 36:36
And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
Exodus 36:37
And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
Exodus 36:38
And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.

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Exodus 36:37 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Hizo también el velo para la puerta del tabernáculo, de jacinto, y púrpura, y carmesí, y lino torcido, obra de recamador;
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et on fit pour l’entrée de la tente un rideau de bleu, et de pourpre, et d’écarlate, et de fin coton retors, en ouvrage de brodeur,
German Elberfelder 1871	Und er machte für den Eingang des Zeltes einen Vorhang von blauem und rotem Purpur und Karmesin und gezwirntem Byssus, in Buntwirkerarbeit;
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Fecit et tentorium in introitu tabernaculi ex hyacintho, purpura, vermiculo, byssoque retorta, opere plumarii: