Exodus 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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