Exodus 36:18-28

18 then making fifty clasps of bronze, connecting the clasps to the loops, bringing the tent together.

19 They finished it off by covering the tapestries with tanned rams' skins dyed red, and covered that with dolphin skins. The Framing

20 They framed The Dwelling with vertical planks of acacia wood,

21 each section of frame fifteen feet long and two and a quarter feet wide,

22 with two pegs for securing them. They made all the frames identical:

23 twenty frames for the south side,

24 with forty silver sockets to receive the two tenons from each of the twenty frames;

25 they repeated that construction on the north side of The Dwelling.

26

27 For the rear of The Dwelling facing west, they made six frames,

28 with two additional frames for the rear corners.

Exodus 36:18-28 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.