Exodus 26:37
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What does Exodus 26:37 mean?
And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars
of
shittim wood
One at each corner of the entrance into the tabernacle, and the
other three at a proper distance from each other, so as to make
four ways for the priests to enter in at; as there might very
well be, since there was a breadth of ten cubits, or five yards
or more:
and overlay them with gold;
with plates of gold, for a gild would soon wear off by continual
use in passing and repassing. This is to be understood not of the
whole pillars, but of the chapiters, heads, tops, or knobs of
them, and of their fillets or girdles; in some parts of them the
wood appearing, as is plain from ( Exodus 36:38
) ( 38:28
) :
and their hooks shall be of gold;
on which the hanging, covering, or vail was hung:
and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for
them;
for the pillars to stand upon them, and were of a meaner metal
than those on which the pillars for the vail before mentioned;
that being the entrance into the holy of holies, where the divine
Majesty dwelt, this into the holy place where the priests did
their service.
