Screen

A large piece of material used to cover or close off an entrance.

Posts and entry curtain
Posts and entry curtain (Elbert Boot © United Bible Societies) Screen, entrance curtain

About Screen

The screen was a large hanging curtain that was suspended from five posts. It served as a kind of door to the Tabernacle, almost like a tent flap. Its purpose was to block from public view the activities that went on inside the Tabernacle. See the description at Posts from which curtains were hung in and around the Tabernacle.

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Key References

Exodus 26:36

For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.

Exodus 27:16

The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.

Exodus 35:12

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

Numbers 3:26

the curtains of the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, and the cords—all the service for these items.

All Scripture References (25)

Exodus (16)
Exodus 26:36

For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.

Exodus 26:37

Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.

Exodus 27:16

The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.

Exodus 35:12

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

Exodus 35:15

the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;

Exodus 35:17

the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the gate of the courtyard;

Exodus 36:37

For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen,

Exodus 38:18

The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,

Exodus 39:34

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

Exodus 39:38

the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the curtain for the entrance to the tent;

Exodus 39:40

the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases; the curtain for the gate of the courtyard, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting;

Exodus 40:5

Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:8

Set up the surrounding courtyard and hang the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard.

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 40:28

Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:33

And Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and he hung the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

Numbers (6)
Numbers 3:25

The duties of the Gershonites at the Tent of Meeting were the tabernacle and tent, its covering, the curtain for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 3:26

the curtains of the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, and the cords—all the service for these items.

Numbers 3:31

Their duties were the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used with them, and the curtain—all the service for these items.

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 4:25

They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting with the covering of fine leather over it, the curtains for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 4:26

the curtains of the courtyard, and the curtains for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, along with their ropes and all the equipment for their service. The Gershonites will do all that needs to be done with these items.

2 Samuel (1)
2 Samuel 17:19

Then the man’s wife took a covering, spread it over the mouth of the well, and scattered grain over it so nobody would know a thing.

Psalms (1)
Psalm 105:39

He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.

Isaiah (1)
Isaiah 22:8

He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.