Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled craftsman. The veil that separates the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place uses the same material as the innermost curtains of the tabernacle: the three covenant colors, fine linen, cherubim. The veil is the most important boundary in the tabernacle — the threshold between the place where the priests minister daily and the place where only the high priest enters once a year. Matthew 27:51 records that this veil was torn from top to bottom at the moment of Jesus' death — the boundary that separated humanity from the fullness of God's presence was removed by the crucifixion. The veil that Exodus 26 constructs with careful detail is the veil that the passion narrative destroys.

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