Verse Lens · Context pointer
Exodus 38:18 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 18. 18And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
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Role in This Section
Reading 38:18 as “And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and…” keeps the verse tied to the before-and-after logic of “The Courtyard and Gate Are Completed”.
Read It With
- Exodus 38:9–20
Read Exodus 38:18 with 38:9–20. Reading 38:18 as “And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and…” keeps the verse tied to the before-and-after logic of “The Courtyard and Gate Are Completed”. The whole unit shows: Hangings, pillars, bases, hooks, gate screen, cords, and pegs establish the outer court exactly as instructed.
Why It Needs Context
Reading 38:18 as “And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and…” keeps the verse tied to the before-and-after logic of “The Courtyard and Gate Are Completed”. Its force depends on 38:9–20; detached from “The Courtyard and Gate Are Completed,” the words “And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and…” could be mistaken for a complete command, promise, judgment, explanation, or doctrine.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Exodus 38:9–20 — The Courtyard and Gate Are CompletedSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Exodus 38:9–20, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Exodus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, names, speech, law, ritual vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Exod.xml, words and morphology for 38:9–20
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