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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Exodus 26:16 In-Context

14 Make a cover of rams' skins that have been dyed red for the outer tent. Over that put a cover made of fine leather.

15 "Make a framework out of acacia wood for the inner tent.

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

17 with two identical pegs. Make all the frames for the inner tent the same way.

18 Make 20 frames for the south side of the inner tent.