For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen — the work of an embroiderer — with four posts and four bases. The entrance screen for the courtyard gate uses the same covenant colors as the inner tabernacle curtains and the sanctuary entrance — blue, purple, and scarlet with fine linen. The gateway into the sacred space is marked with the full covenant color vocabulary: approaching the tabernacle begins with the same colors that surround the ark. The embroidered gateway is the community's welcome into the presence of God — the most accessible threshold bears the most welcoming material. Psalm 100:4 says enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise — the courtyard gate of Exodus 27:16 is the gate the psalm invites the community to enter.

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