Exodus 26:16

16 Zehn Ellen lang soll ein Brett sein und anderthalb Ellen breit. {~} {~}

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 ber diese Decke sollst du eine Decke machen von rötlichen Widderfellen, dazu über sie eine Decke von Dachsfellen.

15 Du sollst auch Bretter machen zu der Wohnung von Akazienholz, die stehen sollen.

16 Zehn Ellen lang soll ein Brett sein und anderthalb Ellen breit. {~} {~}

17 Zwei Zapfen soll ein Brett haben, daß eins an das andere könne gesetzt werden. Also sollst du alle Bretter der Wohnung machen.

18 Ihrer zwanzig sollen stehen gegen Mittag. {~} {~} {~}