Exodus 26:18

18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side 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 ten cubits the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of one board.

17 One board shall have two tenons, connected one with the other: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

19 And thou shalt make forty bases of silver under the twenty boards; two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons.

20 And for the other side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards.