They made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle — eleven curtains in all. The outer tent of eleven goat-hair curtains proceeds exactly as Exodus 26:7 instructed. The transition from the inner linen curtains to the outer goat-hair tent is the transition from the most beautiful to the most durable — the inner beauty of the covenant is protected by the outer practicality of the tent. The layered construction of the tabernacle communicates layered theology: the holiness of the innermost gives way to the protection of the outermost, each layer serving the whole.

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