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336 BOOK OF THE A. AND A. RITE.
bim. The length of each curtain was twenty-three ca
bits or forty-two feet, and each was six feet in width.
They were ten in number ; and five of them were
coupled or sewed together in one piece, and five in
another; and these two Avere so arranged that they
could be fastened together along their edges, by fifty
loops on one edge of each, and fifty hooks of gold ;
that " it should become one Tabernacle."
Over this Tabernacle was a Tent PHK, Ahel] or
cover, of cloth of goats' hair, composed of eleven cur-
tains, each thirty cubits or forty-five feet long, and six
feet wide. Of these, five were coupled together in one
piece, and six in another ; and the two pieces were so
arranged, with fifty loops on one edge of each, and fifty
hooks of brass, that they could be fastened together,
" that it mi