Exodus 26:18

18 And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side.

Exodus 26:18 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:18

And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle
As in the manner before described, so in number as follows:

twenty boards on the south side southward;
which being a cubit and a half broad, made the length of the tabernacle fifteen yards according to the common account; but if these were cubits of twenty one inches, then its length was much greater.

Exodus 26:18 In-Context

16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the width of each board.

17 Two tenons shall be in each board for binding one to another. Thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

18 And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side.

19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under each of the boards for its two tenons.

20 And for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, there shall be twenty boards