Curtain

A large, vertical cloth used to cover an opening, often separating sacred spaces.

The tabernacle curtain or veil
The tabernacle curtain or veil (Image generated by ChatGPT using OpenAI technology) Curtain, veil, drape

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Form, use in ancient daily life, and how translators render the term.

Key References

Exodus 26:31

Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

Matthew 27:51

At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, and the rocks were split.

Hebrews 10:20

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

All Scripture References (29)

Exodus (13)
Exodus 26:31

Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

Exodus 26:33

And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

Exodus 26:35

And place the table outside the veil on the north side of the tabernacle, and put the lampstand opposite the table, on the south side.

Exodus 27:21

In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.

Exodus 30:6

Place the altar in front of the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony—before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony—where I will meet with you.

Exodus 35:12

the ark with its poles and mercy seat, and the veil to shield it;

Exodus 36:35

Next, he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

Exodus 38:27

The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base.

Exodus 39:34

the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering;

Exodus 40:3

Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.

Exodus 40:21

Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.

Exodus 40:22

Moses placed the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.

Exodus 40:26

Moses placed the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting, in front of the veil,

Leviticus (7)
Leviticus 4:6

The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 4:17

and he is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.

Leviticus 16:2

And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

Leviticus 16:12

Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.

Leviticus 16:15

Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.

Leviticus 21:23

but because he has a defect, he must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

Leviticus 24:3

Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.

Numbers (2)
Numbers 4:5

Whenever the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the veil of the curtain, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.

Numbers 18:7

But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”

2 Chronicles (1)
2 Chronicles 3:14

He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.

Matthew (1)
Matthew 27:51

At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, and the rocks were split.

Mark (1)
Mark 15:38

And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

Luke (1)
Luke 23:45

The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn down the middle.

Hebrews (3)
Hebrews 6:19

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

Hebrews 9:3

Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,

Hebrews 10:20

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,