Exodus 26:20

20 And for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, there shall be twenty boards

Exodus 26:20 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:20

And for the second side of the tabernacle the north side
The direction of the tabernacle was east and west; at the east end was the entrance into the holy place, and at the west end the holy of holies; and the two sides were north and south; and as on the south side, so on the north

[there shall be] twenty boards:
just the same number as the laws of building required.

Exodus 26:20 In-Context

18 And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side.

19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under each of the boards for its two tenons.

20 And for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, there shall be twenty boards

21 and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under each of the boards.

22 For the far side of the tabernacle, westward, you shall make six boards.