Carefully prescribed composition of the wooden boards is covered with four layers of curtains with two different dimensions.
Exo 26:7 And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats' [hair] to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Exo 26:8 The length of one curtain [shall be] thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains [shall be all] of one measure.
Eleven curtains of goats' hair produce an overall covering of 30 x 44 cubits. Fourty-four written in Hebrew is DM, which is also a word for "blood", and 44 cubits of seven spans is also 77 feet, or the gematrical value of Heb:OZ, "a goat". Thirty is written as L in Hebrew, and LMD, Lamed means to teach, to learn.
This covering is for a curtain longer than neccessary, so the first one is folded at the side of the entrance, prodicing a covering of 30 x 40 sacred cubits, which is a simple "Pythagorean" triangle.
44 cubits of the linen covering, and 28 cubits of the goat's hair covering reminds on the main dimensions of the Great Pyramid. The base of the pyramid is 440 royal cubits, while the height is 280 royal cubits, both numbers are concealed in the dimensions of the coverings.
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