Then make fifty gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the tabernacle is a unit. Fifty gold clasps join the fifty loops of the two panels, making the tabernacle a unit — echad, the same word used in the Shema: the Lord our God, the Lord is one. The unity of the tabernacle achieved through the gold clasps mirrors the unity of the God who dwells in it. The two five-curtain panels that are separate pieces become one through the clasps — the same principle that Genesis 2:24 applies to marriage: the two become one flesh. John 17:22 records Jesus praying that his followers may be one as we are one — the unity achieved through the clasps of Exodus 26:6 is the material type of the spiritual unity Christ prays for.

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