And you shall make a screen still uses the singular you. The screen (masak) was also a curtain, but a different word is used to distinguish this from the veil (paroketh). Again one may say “a large piece of linen cloth.” (See the comment at verse 31.) For the door of the tent is literally “for the opening of the ʾohel.” Here the word ʾohel (“tent”) is used in reference to the mishkan. (See the introductory remarks to chapter 26.) The opening, or door, was the “entrance” (Good News Translation) at the east end of the tabernacle itself, the small tent inside the larger enclosure.

Of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen is identical to verse 31. (For the materials, see the comment at verse 1; for the colors, see the comment at 25.4.) Embroidered with needlework is literally “something done by an embroiderer.” The word refers to a weaver of colored fabric, or an embroiderer, but here the focus is on the work itself rather than on the worker. This screen was the same kind of material as the inner layer and the veil, described in verses 1 and 31, but it did not have the cherubim. Also, a different word, “embroiderer,” is used here, while verses 1 and 31 speak of a “thinker.”

Quoted with permission from Osborn, Noel D. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Exodus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1999. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .