Exodus 26:17

17 "There shall be two tenons for each board, fitted to one another; thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Exodus 26:17 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:17

Two tenons shall there be on one board
Every board was to be so cut and shaped at the lower end of it, as to have, as it were, "two hands" F18, as in the original, to enter into, lay hold on, and fasten in mortises:

set in order one against another;
at a proper distance from each other, as the rounds of a ladder:

thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle;
everyone was to have two tenons.


FOOTNOTES:

F18 (twdy ytv) "duae manus", Montanus.

Exodus 26:17 In-Context

15 "Then you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
16 "Ten cubits shall be the length of each board and one and a half cubits the width of each board.
17 "There shall be two tenons for each board, fitted to one another; thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle.
18 "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 one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons;

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