Tabernacle, Tent, and Covering
Exodus 35:11The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
See All..., in reference to the tabernacle, mentions the "tabernacle, his tent, and his covering." Though the terms are used in various ways, they have distinctive meanings in reference to the the structure of the tabernacle. The word tabernacle refers to the structure itself and has special reference to the wooden framework (Exodus 36:20And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
See All...). The word tent speaks of the curtains of goat hair that covered the tabernacle (Exodus 36:14And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
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