Exodus 27:12

12 “The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits^[a] wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases.

Exodus 27:12 in Other Translations

12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings for fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten bases.

12 The curtains on the west end of the courtyard will be 75 feet long, supported by ten posts set into ten bases.

12 "For the west end of the Courtyard you will need seventy-five feet of hangings with their ten posts and bases.

12 [Make] the hangings of the courtyard on the west side 75 feet long, including their 10 posts and 10 bases.

Exodus 27:12 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 27:12

And for the breadth of the court, on the west side
On the west end, the upper end of the court, near to which reached the holy of holies:

shall be hangings of fifty cubits:
or twenty five yards and more, so that the court was but half as broad as it was long:

their pillars ten, and their sockets ten;
which was a number proportionate to the hangings, and stood at an equal distance from each other, as the pillars for the sides, at five cubits, or two yards and a half, as commonly computed.

Exodus 27:12 In-Context

10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

11 The north side shall also be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

12 “The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases.

13 On the east end, toward the sunrise, the courtyard shall also be fifty cubits wide.

14 Curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on one side of the entrance, with three posts and three bases,

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, about 75 feet or about 23 meters; also in verse 13