Exodus 27:12

12 The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, ^[a] with ten posts and ten bases.

Exodus 27:12 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 27:12

And for the breadth of the court, on the west side
On the west end, the upper end of the court, near to which reached the holy of holies:

shall be hangings of fifty cubits:
or twenty five yards and more, so that the court was but half as broad as it was long:

their pillars ten, and their sockets ten;
which was a number proportionate to the hangings, and stood at an equal distance from each other, as the pillars for the sides, at five cubits, or two yards and a half, as commonly computed.

Exodus 27:12 In-Context

10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.

11 Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

12 The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.

13 The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.

14 Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,

Footnotes

• [a]. 50 cubits is approximately 75 feet or 22.9 meters; also in verse 13.