18 He made the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard of finely woven linen, and he decorated it with beautiful embroidery in blue, purple, and scarlet thread. It was 30Â feet long, and its height was 7 feet, just like the curtains of the courtyard walls.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 38:18
Commentary on Exodus 38:9-20
(Read Exodus 38:9-20)
The walls of the court being of curtains only, intimated that the state of the Jewish church itself was movable and changeable; and in due time to be taken down and folded up, when the place of the tent should be enlarged, and its cords lengthened, to make room for the Gentile world.