Exodus 26:31
Good News Translation
"Make a curtain of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool. Embroider it with figures of winged creatures.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall make a curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen; it shall be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

New American Bible
You shall make a veil woven of violet, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of fine linen twined, with cherubim embroidered on it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt make also a veil of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work and goodly variety:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt make also a veil of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work and goodly variety:

a vail of

Exodus 36:35 He made also a veil of violet, and purple, scarlet and fine twisted linen, varied and distinguished with embroidery:

Exodus 40:3,21 And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before it: . . .

Leviticus 16:2,15 And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle), . . .

2 Chronicles 3:14 He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.

Matthew 27:51 And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom: and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent.

Mark 15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom.

Luke 23:45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:

Hebrews 9:3-8 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies: . . .

Hebrews 10:20,21 A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh: . . .

blue

Exodus 25:4 Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

Exodus 35:6,25,35 Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, goats' hair, . . .

Exodus 36:8 And all the men that were wise of heart, to accomplish the work of the tabernacle, made ten curtains of twisted fine linen, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work, and the art of embroidering:

purple.

Exodus 26:1 And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt make ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery.

Exodus 28:15 And thou shalt make the rational of judgment with embroidered work of divers colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.

Exodus 38:23 Having for his companion Ooliab, the son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan: who also was an excellent artificer in wood, and worker in tapestry and embroidery in violet, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.

2 Chronicles 2:7-13 Send me therefore a skilful man, that knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and in iron, in purple, in scarlet and in blue, and that hath skill in engraving, with the artificers, which I have with me in Judea and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. . . .

Psalm 137:5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

Songs 7:1 What shalt thou see in the Sulamitess but the companies of camps? How beautiful are thy steps in shoes, O prince's daughter! The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, that are made by the hand of a skilful workman.

cherubims shall it be made

Exodus 25:18 Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle.

Context
The Veil for the Ark
31Thou shalt make also a veil of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work and goodly variety:32And thou shalt hang it up before four pillars of setim wood, which themselves also shall be overlaid with gold, and shall have heads of gold, but sockets of silver.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:51
And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom: and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent.

Mark 15:38
And the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom.

Luke 23:45
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

Hebrews 9:3
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies:

Exodus 26:32
And thou shalt hang it up before four pillars of setim wood, which themselves also shall be overlaid with gold, and shall have heads of gold, but sockets of silver.

Exodus 27:21
In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual observance throughout their successions among the children of Israel.

Exodus 36:35
He made also a veil of violet, and purple, scarlet and fine twisted linen, varied and distinguished with embroidery:

Exodus 36:36
And four pillars of setim wood, which with their heads he overlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver.

2 Chronicles 3:14
He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.

Exodus 26:30
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