Exodus 26:16

16 The length of the frame [will be] ten cubits, and the width of the one frame [will be] one and a half cubits.

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 "And you will make a covering for the tent of red-dyed ram skins and a covering of fine leather [to go] above.

15 "And you will make the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood [as] uprights.

16 The length of the frame [will be] ten cubits, and the width of the one frame [will be] one and a half cubits.

17 You will make two {pegs} for the one frame [for] joining {each to another} [and] likewise for all the frames of the tabernacle.

18 And you will make the frames for the tabernacle [with] twenty frames for the {south} side.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "board" or "plank"
• [b]. Or "board" or "plank"