Éxodo 26:16

16 La longitud de cada tabla será de diez codos, y de codo y medio la anchura de cada tabla.

Éxodo 26:16 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:16

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board
Or five yards, according to the common cubit:

and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board;
or three quarters of a yard; and from hence we may learn what were the height and the length of the tabernacle; according to the common computation of a cubit, it was but five yards high and fifteen long, since there were but twenty boards on each side, ( Exodus 26:18 Exodus 26:20 ) , but if three inches are added to each cubit, it will make its measures considerably larger: Josephus F17 says the boards were four fingers thick: according to Bishop Cumberland the boards of the tabernacle, containing fifteen Jewish square cubits, were very near fifty English square feet in their length and breadth.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 3.

Éxodo 26:16 In-Context

14 Harás también á la tienda una cubierta de cueros de carneros, teñidos de rojo, y una cubierta de cueros de tejones encima.
15 Y harás para el tabernáculo tablas de madera de Sittim, que estén derechas.
16 La longitud de cada tabla será de diez codos, y de codo y medio la anchura de cada tabla.
17 Dos quicios tendrá cada tabla, trabadas la una con la otra; así harás todas las tablas del tabernáculo.
18 Harás, pues, las tablas del tabernáculo: veinte tablas al lado del mediodía, al austro.
The Reina-Valera Antigua (1602) is in the public domain.