Exodus 40 · Verse 28

Exodus 40:28

And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:28, King James Version

Exodus 40:28 in other translations

BSBThen he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
WEBHe put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
ASVAnd he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
YLTAnd he setteth the covering of the opening to the tabernacle,
DARBYAnd he hung up the curtain of the entrance to the tabernacle.
BBEAnd he put up the curtain at the doorway of the House.
WebsterAnd he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.

What does Exodus 40:28 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 40:16-33

When the tabernacle and the furniture of it were prepared, they did not put off rearing it till they came to Canaan; but, in obedience to the will of God, they set it up in the midst of their camp. Those who are unsettled in the world, must not think that this will excuse want of religion; as if it were enough to begin to serve God when they begin to be settled in the world. No; a tabernacle for God is very needful…

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Exodus 40:28 in the original Hebrew

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וַיָּ֛שֶׂםvai.Ya.semand he set upH7760
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
מָסַ֥ךְma.Sakh[the] screen ofH4539
הַפֶּ֖תַחha.Pe.tachthe entranceH6607
לַמִּשְׁכָּֽן\׃la.mish.Kanof the tabernacleH4908

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Cross references for Exodus 40:28

  • Exodus 40:5

    And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.

  • John 10:9

    I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

  • Ephesians 2:18

    For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

  • John 14:6

    Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

  • Exodus 38:9-19

    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. …

  • Hebrews 10:19-20

    Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

  • 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.

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5; 26:36,37; 38:9-19; Joh 14:6; 10:9; Eph 2:18; Heb 10:19,20

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Context

  • Exodus 40:27

    And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the Lord commanded Moses.

  • Exodus 40:28

    And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.

  • Exodus 40:29

    And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Exodus 40:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Puso asimismo la cortina de la puerta del tabernáculo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et il plaça le rideau de l’entrée du tabernacle.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und er hing den Vorhang des Eingangs zur Wohnung auf.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Labrum quoque statuit inter tabernaculum testimonii et altare, implens illud aqua.