Deriving the Sabbath Enclosure From the Tabernacle Courtyard

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 414:2

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(Exodus 38:9-14) A garden or an enclosure that is seventy cubits and a remainder by seventy cubits and a remainder, surrounded by a wall ten handbreadths high - one may carry within it on the Sabbath. From where are these words derived? Rav Judah said: Scripture says (Exodus 27:18) "The length of the courtyard a hundred cubits and the breadth fifty by fifty." The Torah said: take fifty and surround fifty. But the plain sense of the verse - to what does it refer? Abaye said: Set the Tabernacle at the edge of the fifty, so that there be fifty cubits before it and twenty cubits to each and every side. One measures only with a rope of fifty cubits. From where are these words derived? Rav Judah said: Scripture says "The length of the courtyard a hundred cubits and the breadth fifty by fifty." The Torah said: measure with a rope of fifty cubits. But this is needed for "take fifty and surround fifty"! If so, let the verse say "fifty fifty"; what is "fifty by fifty"? Learn from it two things.

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