Fifty Blue Loops and the Measure of the Tabernacle Curtains

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 421:1

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Fifty loops of blue on each one, to join them together. And likewise in the set of five curtains of the tent. So there were found two sets, forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, over the cavity of the tent. And a cubit was the thickness of the boards on the east, and a cubit on the west, so there were thirty-two cubits. There remained eight cubits to cover the boards on the west. And their width was twenty-eight cubits. Take away from them ten cubits for the cavity of the tent, and two cubits for the thickness of the boards on the north and on the south, that is twelve cubits; there remained eight cubits on this side and eight cubits on that side to cover the boards on the north and on the south.

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