9627. 'And the additional part that trails backwards in the curtains of the tent' means an extension. This is clear from the meaning of 'the additional part trailing backwards' as an extension, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'the curtains of the tent' as the truths derived from external celestial good which constitute the external part of heaven, meant by 'the tent', 9615. 'The additional part that trails backwards from the curtains' means an extension because that part extends as a continuation from the curtains when these have been spread out.

9616. 'Eleven curtains you shall make them' means all the truths that it consists of. This is clear from the meaning of 'eleven' as all, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'curtains from goats' as truths derived from external celestial good, dealt with immediately above in 9615. The reason why 'eleven' means all is that ten curtains constituted the actual tent, while the eleventh trailed back as an additional one over the rear parts of the dwelling-place, as becomes clear from verses 9, 12-13 that follow. For the meaning of 'ten' as all, see 4638, 9595.