Exodus 27:12

12 For the width of the court on the west side there shall be fifty cubits of hangings, with ten pillars and ten bases.

Exodus 27:12 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 27:12

And for the breadth of the court, on the west side
On the west end, the upper end of the court, near to which reached the holy of holies:

shall be hangings of fifty cubits:
or twenty five yards and more, so that the court was but half as broad as it was long:

their pillars ten, and their sockets ten;
which was a number proportionate to the hangings, and stood at an equal distance from each other, as the pillars for the sides, at five cubits, or two yards and a half, as commonly computed.

Exodus 27:12 In-Context

10 its twenty pillars and their twenty bases shall be of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.
11 Likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.
12 For the width of the court on the west side there shall be fifty cubits of hangings, with ten pillars and ten bases.
13 The width of the court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits.
14 There shall be fifteen cubits of hangings on the one side, with three pillars and three bases.
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