Exodus 36:23-33

23 He made, therefore, the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side towards the Negev.

24 He also made the forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, on the side of the Aquilon, {the north wind} he made twenty boards,

26 with their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

27 And for the westward side of the tabernacle he made six boards.

28 And he made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides,

29 which were coupled beneath and likewise coupled together above to a ring; thus he did to both of them in both the corners.

30 There were, therefore, eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.

31 And he also made bars of cedar wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the westward side.

33 And he made the middle bar to pass through the boards from the one end to the other.

Exodus 36:23-33 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.