Exodus 26:16-26

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

21 and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under each of the boards.

22 For the far side of the tabernacle, westward, you shall make six boards.

23 And you shall also make two boards for the two back corners of the tabernacle.

24 They shall be coupled together at the bottom and they shall be coupled together at the top by one ring. Thus it shall be for both of them. They shall be for the two corners.

25 So there shall be eight boards with their sockets of silver--sixteen sockets--two sockets under each board.

26 "And you shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:16-26 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 26

In this chapter a description is given of the tabernacle itself, and first of its inward curtains, of their number, matter, length, and breadth, and the manner of coupling them together, Ex 26:1-6, and then of the outward curtains of it, their number, matter, length, and breadth, and coupling, and how disposed of, Ex 26:7-13, and next of the two coverings of the tabernacle, of rams' skins and badgers' skins, Ex 22:14, the boards for the tabernacle are also described, with their tenons and sockets, Ex 26:15-25 and the bars and rings for it, by which it was kept firm together, Ex 26:26-30, an account is given of the vail between the holy and the most holy place, Ex 26:31-35, and of the hanging for the door of the tabernacle, Ex 26:36,37.