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The Courtyard of the Mishkan

G-d now instructs how how to construct the courtyard of the Mishkan:

Both the southern and northern sides of the courtyard were to have 100 amos of curtains each, made out of twisted linen, loosely braided, rather than tightly weaved, so as to to be filled with holes.

Each side should have 20 pillars placed at a distance of 5 amos from one another (the width of each pillar is to be included in this distance). The pillars had silver hooks attached to them and silver threads wrapped around them, either only at their top, middle or all around them (Rashi isn't sure). These pillars were placed into 20 copper sockets.

Then poles were made (measuring 6 tefachim long and 3 tefachim wide) with a copper ring at the center of each. These rings were attached to the poles' hooks.

The edge of the above mentioned curtains were wrapped around these poles with cords and hung down - being the same height of the courtyard's partition.

On the west side, a similar structure should be made, but with only 50 amos of curtains and 10 pillars placed into 10 sockets.

For the eastern side, since this was the entrance, 15 amos of curtain was to be hung on either side, leaving 20 amos of empty space in the middle which was to be covered by a screen. As with the western side, there were to be 10 pillars wedged into 10 sockets, 5 amos apart (including the width of the pillars in this distance) (3 on either side for the curtains and then 4 in the middle, in the area of the screen).

The screen at the entrance (covering the middle 20 amos) was to be made out of turquoise, purple and scarlet wool and twisted linen. This screen had copper sockets as well.

As with the northern and southern sides, the pillars of the western and eastern courtyard similarly had silver rings around them, had silver hooks and were wedged into copper sockets.

The courtyard was 100 amos in length (from east to west).

The east side of the courtyard was 50x50 amos. Moving westward, then came the Mishkan which was 30 amos in length and 10 amos in width and then another 20 amos of the western outer area of the courtyard.

The courtyard was 50 amos in width (from north to south). The Mishkan was 10 amos in the middle of this, leaving 20 amos of courtyard on both the northern and southern sides.

The curtains which served as partitions to the courtyard were 5 amos high.

All of the pegs used in the construction of the Mishkan and its courtyard as well as all of the tools used to construct these (eg. hammers etc) were to be made out of copper.