Exodus 26:16

16 Each board will be fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide.

Exodus 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Exodus 26:16 In-Context

14 Then for the tent, make a covering of rams' skins dyed red and an outer covering of beaded leather.

15 Make acacia-wood boards to stand upright as a frame for the dwelling.

16 Each board will be fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide.

17 Put two pegs on each board for joining them to each other. Do this for all the dwelling's boards.

18 Make twenty boards for the dwelling's southern side.