The extra length on the sides of the tent curtains — a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other — will hang down over the sides of the tabernacle to cover it. The one cubit overhang on each side adds side protection. The total coverage — front doubled, back extended, sides overhanging — means the inner structure is completely enclosed. The care with which the covering is designed to leave no gap in protection reflects the care with which God's law provides no gap in the covenant's requirements: the comprehensive law that covers all situations is the covenant version of the comprehensive covering that protects all surfaces. Nothing is left unaddressed.

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