36:35 ¶ And he made a vail of
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims
made he it of cunning work. 36 And he
made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them
with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets
of silver. 37 And he made an hanging for
the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, of needlework; 38 And the five
pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their
fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
Note here that the word vail
is spelled with an a while it is
spelled with an e elsewhere.
Mark 15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain
from the top to the bottom.
Regardless of the spelling it is the same word. In the 1500s the
word was spelled as veyle or vayle as a curtain or a covering.
During the 1500s there were great changes in the English language.
The “Great English Vowel Shift” took place then and also because of printing
technology that began in the 1400s there became fewer variations of written
English. As time went by there was a push for spelling to be standardized, for
there to be a right way to write something and a wrong way. You will find, in
this English Bible, some spelling variations of words like this vail or the spelling of King
Nebuchadnezzar’s name as Nebuchadrezzar. I think that if you look at the number
of times a word is spelled a certain way you might see some deeper
significance.
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