Instructions for Making the Tent of Meeting: Exodus 26 deals with the inner four-layered tent of meeting, including the holy place and most holy place. The small “t” tabernacle in verse 1 refers to the tent of meeting, not the larger structure that includes the courtyard (27:9–19). Four distinct Hebrew words describe various fabric creations woven for the tabernacle. (The NIV translates all of them “curtain.”) The woven cloth for the tent of meeting is yeriʿah meaning “tent fabric,” from a verb that means “quiver” (vv. 1, 7). The “veil” in front of the ark, dividing the holiest place from the holy place within the tent of meeting is paroket, meaning “veil,” from a verb that means “shut off” (25:31). The “entrance screens” to the tabernacle and to the tent of meeting are masak, meaning “scr…