And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole.
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
And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold,.... Which some render "buttons" (i), others "hooks" (k) they seem to be "clasps"; the use of them follows: and couple the curtains together with the taches; the two great curtains were made out of the ten, which had in them fifty(i) "fibulas", Tigurine version, Vatablus (k) "Uncinos", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius; so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan.
taches--clasps; supposed in shape, as well as in use, to be the same as hooks and eyes.