Exodus 26:16

16 Each frame is to be 15 feet long and 27 inches wide,

Exodus 26:16 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:16

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board
Or five yards, according to the common cubit:

and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board;
or three quarters of a yard; and from hence we may learn what were the height and the length of the tabernacle; according to the common computation of a cubit, it was but five yards high and fifteen long, since there were but twenty boards on each side, ( Exodus 26:18 Exodus 26:20 ) , but if three inches are added to each cubit, it will make its measures considerably larger: Josephus F17 says the boards were four fingers thick: according to Bishop Cumberland the boards of the tabernacle, containing fifteen Jewish square cubits, were very near fifty English square feet in their length and breadth.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 3.

Exodus 26:16 In-Context

14 "Make two more coverings, one of rams' skin dyed red and the other of fine leather, to serve as the outer cover.
15 "Make upright frames for the Tent out of acacia wood.
16 Each frame is to be 15 feet long and 27 inches wide,
17 with two matching projections, so that the frames can be joined together. All the frames are to have these projections.
18 Make twenty frames for the south side
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.