Exodus 26:17

17 Two tenons ^[a] must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Exodus 26:17 In-Context

15 You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

16 Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

17 Two tenons must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

18 Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,

19 with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, projecting pieces of wood made for insertion into another piece; similarly in verse 19.