Exodus 26:16

16 quae singulae denos cubitos in longitudine habeant et in latitudine singulos ac semissem

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 facies et operimentum aliud tecto de pellibus arietum rubricatis et super hoc rursum aliud operimentum de ianthinis pellibus

15 facies et tabulas stantes tabernaculi de lignis setthim

16 quae singulae denos cubitos in longitudine habeant et in latitudine singulos ac semissem

17 in lateribus tabulae duae incastraturae fient quibus tabula alteri tabulae conectatur atque in hunc modum cunctae tabulae parabuntur

18 quarum viginti erunt in latere meridiano quod vergit ad austrum