Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
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
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another,.... Five of the ten curtains were to be sewed together, and make as it were one curtain: and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another: the other five were to be joined together in like manner, and so made two large pieces of tapestry of fourteen yards long and ten broad, according to...
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another, &c.--so as to form two grand divisions, each eleven yards wide.