Exodus 36:17-27

17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain.

18 And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be a single whole.

19 And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins.

20 ¹Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of ²acacia wood.

21 Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.

22 Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.

23 The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side.

24 And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons.

25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames

26 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases under the next frame.

27 For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames.

Exodus 36:17-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 36

Bezaleel and Aholiab, with the artificers under them, having a call as well as qualifications for the service of the sanctuary, and having received from Moses the materials for it, set about it, Ex 36:1-3 but the people bringing more than was necessary, they acquaint Moses with it, who by a proclamation restrained from it, Ex 36:4-7 and next an account is given of the several things that were wrought by them, as first the curtains for the tabernacle, both of linen and goats' hair, and the coverings of them, Ex 36:8-19 next the boards for the tabernacle, and the sockets they were set in, and the bars for the boards, Ex 36:20-34 and then the vail which parted the most holy place from the holy place, and the hanging which divided between the holy place and the court, Ex 36:35-38.

Cross References

• 1. For ver. 20-34, see Exodus 26:15-29
• 2. Exodus 25:5, 28; Exodus 30:5