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Exodus 26:18 KJV
Exodus · chapter 26 · verse 18
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.Exodus 26:18 · King James Version
Exodus 26:18 in context
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.
19And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
20And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- tabernaclemishkâna residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the graveH4908 →
- boardsqeresha slab or plankH7175 →
- twentyʻesrîymtwentyH6242 →
- southnegebthe southH5045 →
- makeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- sidepêʼâhproperly, mouth in a figurative senseH6285 →
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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