Make a courtyard for the tabernacle. The south side shall be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains of finely twisted linen. The courtyard that encloses the tabernacle is approximately 150 feet long and 75 feet wide — a substantial open space surrounding the sanctuary tent. The fine linen curtains of the courtyard are the same material as the innermost tabernacle curtains: the boundary of the sacred space is made of the same fabric as the innermost layer. The courtyard curtains that define the boundary between the camp and the sanctuary are not lesser fabric but the same fabric — the holiness of the space begins at the courtyard, not at the tent entrance.

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