Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.
God gave them a tent, not a temple, because they were wandering in the wilderness and needed Him movable with them. This tabernacle also teaches us that the church on earth is never settled; we are strangers here, travellers toward heaven, and all our privileges move with us or leave us as we honor or neglect them.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 26:1-6
Each curtain runs twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, that is, if we reckon the cubit as half a yard, though Dr. Cumberland argues the Jewish cubit was three inches longer, which would shift these dimensions considerably. All must be of one measure; uniformity is required.
AI summary
length--Each curtain was to be fifteen yards in length and a little exceeding two in breadth.