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Exodus 26:16 KJV
Exodus · chapter 26 · verse 16
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.Exodus 26:16 · King James Version
Exodus 26:16 in context
14And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
15And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
16Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
17Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
18And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- breadthrôchabwidthH7341 →
- cubitsʼammâhproperly, a motherH520 →
- lengthʼôreklengthH753 →
- boardqeresha slab or plankH7175 →
- halfchêtsîythe half or middleH2677 →
- TenʻesertenH6235 →
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Very particular directions are here given about the boards of the tabernacle, which were to bear up the curtains, as the stakes of a tent which had need to be strong, Isa 54:2. These boards had tenons which fell into the mortises that were made for them in silver bases.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-30