Exodus 26:16

16 The length of each plank is to be 15 feet,^[a] and the width of each plank 27 inches.^[b]

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 Make a covering for the tent from ram skins dyed red, and a covering of manatee skins on top of that.

15 "You are to make upright planks of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

16 The length of each plank is to be 15 feet, and the width of each plank 27 inches.

17 Each plank must be connected together with two tenons. Do the same for all the planks of the tabernacle.

18 Make the planks for the tabernacle as follows: 20 planks for the south side,

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit 10 cubits
• [b]. Lit a cubit and a half