Exodus 26:16-26

16 Each frame must be fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide,

17 with two pegs side by side. Every frame must be made the same way.

18 Make twenty frames for the south side of the Holy Tent.

19 Each frame must have two silver bases to go under it, a peg fitting into each base. You must make forty silver bases for the frames.

20 Make twenty more frames for the north side of the Holy Tent

21 and forty silver bases for them -- two bases for each frame.

22 You must make six frames for the rear or west end of the Holy Tent

23 and two frames for each corner at the rear.

24 The two frames are to be doubled at the bottom and joined at the top with a metal ring. Both corner frames must be made this way.

25 So there will be a total of eight frames at the rear of the Tent, and there will be sixteen silver bases -- two bases under each frame.

26 "Make crossbars of acacia wood to connect the upright frames of the Holy Tent. Make five crossbars to hold the frames together on one side

Exodus 26:16-26 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 26

In this chapter a description is given of the tabernacle itself, and first of its inward curtains, of their number, matter, length, and breadth, and the manner of coupling them together, Ex 26:1-6, and then of the outward curtains of it, their number, matter, length, and breadth, and coupling, and how disposed of, Ex 26:7-13, and next of the two coverings of the tabernacle, of rams' skins and badgers' skins, Ex 22:14, the boards for the tabernacle are also described, with their tenons and sockets, Ex 26:15-25 and the bars and rings for it, by which it was kept firm together, Ex 26:26-30, an account is given of the vail between the holy and the most holy place, Ex 26:31-35, and of the hanging for the door of the tabernacle, Ex 26:36,37.