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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Exodus 25:3–5

This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, and bronze; / blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair; / ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Exodus 26:1, 14, 31, 36

“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them. / Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather. / Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Exodus 36:8, 19, 35, 37

All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into them. / Additionally, he made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather. / Next, he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Exodus 27:16

The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Exodus 28:4–8, 15, 31, 33

These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that they may serve Me as priests. / They shall use gold, along with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen. / They are to make the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Exodus 35:5–7, 23, 25, 35

Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze; / blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair; / ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Exodus 38:18, 23

The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high, / With him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, designer, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Exodus 39:2, 3, 5, 29

Bezalel made the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. / They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen—the work of a skilled craftsman. / And the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, of the same workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Leviticus 14:4, 6, 49, 51, 52

the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed. / And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water. / He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house;

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Numbers 4:7, 8, 13

Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and place the plates and cups on it, along with the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread offering is to remain on it. / And they shall spread a scarlet cloth over them, cover them with fine leather, and insert the poles. / Then they shall remove the ashes from the bronze altar, spread a purple cloth over it,

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Numbers 19:2, 5, 6

“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke. / Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung. / The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Isaiah 63:1–3

Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.” / Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress? / “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

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Colors: These Colors Figured Largely in the Symbolisms of the Tabernacle Furnishing Hebrews 9:19–23

For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people, / saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.” / In the same way, he sprinkled with blood the tabernacle and all the vessels used in worship.

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