s by themselves,"(608) and they were coupled with fifty loops,
as is said, "And he made fifty loops upon the outmost edge of the curtain
in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain
which coupleth the second."(609) And the loops were coupled to fifty
taches of brass, as is said, "And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass,
and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together that it
may be one."(610) The length of the curtains was thirty cubits. Take from
them ten cubits for their breadth, there will remain ten cubits from one
side, and ten cubits from the other side, as they hung down and covered
the boards and the sockets. The breadth of the curtains was forty-four
cubits, as is said, "And the breadth of one curtain four cubits; and the
eleven curtains shall be all of one measure."(611) Take from them thirty
cubits for the length of the tabernacle, and ten cubits behind the
tabernacle--these are forty. There was left there one curtain which was
doubled in front of the tent, as is said, "And thou shalt double the sixth
curtain in the fore-front of the tabernacle."(612) Rabbi Judah said, "half
of it was doubled in the fore-front of the tabernacle, and half of it was
hanging behind the tabernacle," as is said, "And the remnant that
remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth
shall hang over the back-side of the tabernacle."(613) There was also
provided one great cover of rams' skins dyed red, its length thirty
cubits, and its breadth ten cubits; with it they clothed the tent upon the
tabernacle from east to west, as is said, "And thou shalt make a covering
for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers'
skins,"(614) and it was made "like patchwork," the words of Rabbi
Nehemiah. Rabbi Judah said, "there were two covers--the lower one of rams'
skins dyed red, and the upper one of badgers' skins," as is said, "his
covering and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon
it."(615)

Chapter IV

The vail was woven ten cubits square, and there were made in it four
loops, and it was hung on hooks on the tops of the pillars, and it was
spread in the third portion of the tabernacle, that there should be from
it inward ten cubits, and from it outward twenty cubits, as is said, "And
thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches."(616) It follows that the
place of the Holy of Holies was ten cubits square, and there were put the
ark, a