Exodus 26:18

18 "Make the planks for the tabernacle as follows: twenty planks for the south side, facing southward.

Exodus 26:18 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:18

And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle
As in the manner before described, so in number as follows:

twenty boards on the south side southward;
which being a cubit and a half broad, made the length of the tabernacle fifteen yards according to the common account; but if these were cubits of twenty one inches, then its length was much greater.

Exodus 26:18 In-Context

16 Each plank is to be fifteen feet long and two-and-a-quarter feet wide.

17 There are to be two projections on each plank, and the planks are to be joined one to another. That is how you are to make all the planks for the tabernacle.

18 "Make the planks for the tabernacle as follows: twenty planks for the south side, facing southward.

19 Make forty silver sockets under the twenty planks, two sockets under one plank for its two projections and two sockets under another plank for its two projections.

20 "For the second side of the tabernacle, to the north, make twenty planks